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Summary: Every 120 years or so a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing, toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South Pacific isle.... Get the full story from Science@NASA. Page
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Tomas
Maruska, in the village of Stupava, north of Bratislava, Slovakia, latitude 48�'29' N longitude 17�'39' E Jun. 08 |
#1, more | This image shows the International Space Station and Venus transiting the Sun at the same time. The event was visible inside a narrow corridor (only a few hundred meters wide) stretching across Slovakia. Photo details: Lens: Rubinar 5.6/500 + Baader Astro Solar filter, camera: WebcamPhilips TouCam Pro, Guiding: Vixen GPDX, Exposition: 1/10 000 s at frame rate 30images/sec. |
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Duane
Clausen, Menominee, MI Jun. 08 |
#1 | Just for fun: Five out of six of these dark spots are a flock of birds, one is not. Can you find the planet? |
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Tom
Murdic, Paducah, Kentucky Jun. 08 |
#1 | Seen through lots of turbulent atmosphere at sunrise, Venus seems to boil! Photo details: 1/80th of a sec. exposure time using an Olympus 4000Z digital camera set at 100 ISO coupled to a Questar 3.5 with no solar filter. |
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Ric
Parkin, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, | Low tech on holiday - 10x25mm binoculars, a piece of paper, and great architecture. |
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Paul
Howell, George Whitney, Kirk Rogers, Cornish, Maine USA Jun. 08 |
#1, more | Venus transit photographed in hydrogen-alpha light using an SBIG STL-11000 camera and and Astro-Physics 155EDF telescope shortly after sunrise. |
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Mark
Keech, Otford, New South Wales, Australia Jun. 08 |
#1 | Details: Olympus C750UZ at maximum optical zoom and using a #13 welder's mask filter. |
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David
Hazen, Near Boston, MA Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, more | Photos of the Venus transit were taken with my Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera and my Meade ETX-125 telescope. |
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Alan
C Tough, Elgin, Moray, Scotland Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | Thick, but fast moving, cloud covered Northern Scotland all morning. I waited patiently and the cloud momentarily thinned enough to allow me to witness and photograph the transit. Exposure was 1/1600 Sec @ f/16 and ISO 100 equivalent film speed. |
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Mike
Coward, Bucasia, nr Mackay, North Queensland, AUSTRALIA Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3 | An old 115cm reflector was adorned with a projection device constructed of bamboo sticks held together with rubber bands, wrapped in cheap black cloth and with a white card screen stapled to the end. The whole event was watched till sunset whereupon flocks of whistling ducks could be seen flying across the image of the Sun and Venus as they landed in the swamp for the night. Photos were taken by a hand-held digital camera (with bottle of beer in the other hand as a counter-balance) |
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Olivier
Schreurs, Nandrin , Belgium , Europe Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3 | Where is the black drop? The black drop effect was expected twice and unvisible twice--both in eyepiece and on the pc monitor even after webcam movies processes (20 stacked frames each). Was the old Unitron 102mm f/15refractor 'too good' ,the seeing and focus too favourable ? Vision of luminous atmospheric crescent absolutely dramatic in eyepiece of course even a little for the Toucam. |
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Mike
O'Leary, Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo, Summer residence of the Pope Jun. 08 |
#1 | Mike O'Leary, on the other hand, saw the black drop effect clearly. Details: Canon 10D mounted on a Celestron C-5 telescope. "Amazing sight," says Mike. |
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Ulrike Haug near Stuttgart, Germany; from
David Crawford at The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London; a
movie from Sander Klieverik of Denekamp, the Netherlands; from
Doug Askew at Chestnut Ridge Metro Park near Columbus, Ohio; from
some sky watchers in Hong Kong; from
David Le Conte of Guernsey, Channel Islands; from
Dave Massey of Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom; from
Jean Guimond of Quebec city, Quebec, Canada; from
Geoff Sims of Sydney, Australia; from
Quanzhi Ye of Dalingshan, Guangzhou, China; from
Richard F Malone of Wilbraham , MA; from
Robert Lenz on Jones Beach in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada; from
Shane Finnigan of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; from
Tony Surma-Hawes at the lighthouse at Vlamingh Head near Exmouth,
Western Australia. |