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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. This
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Jarle
Aasland, Stavanger, Norway Jun. 08 |
#1 | Shot through a hole in the clouds. Nikon D100, 25mm EP, Orion Skyview Pro 127. |
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Wah!,
Hong Kong Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | First contact is prime focus. After first contact is with 2x barlow. Details: ToUCam, C8, CGE mount |
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Doucats
& Wah!, Hong Kong Jun. 08 |
#1 | Second contact. Details: ToUCam, C8, CGE mount |
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Kedar
Bhat, Girish Vaze, Swapneel Kore, Mulund, Mumbai, India Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3 | ETX 90 on LXD-55 Mount, Nikon D100, Prime Focus, 1/200 sec. |
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Parssky.com,
Esfahan city, Iran Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3 | Photography info : Digital Camera 3 MG Picxel , 8 " Telescope |
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Subaru,
Hong Kong Jun. 08 |
#1 | Venus transit second contact, 20040608 05:31:05UT ND3.8 + C5 + Nikon D70, ISO200, 1/3000 exposure. |
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Jan
Simons, Booischot,Belgium Jun. 08 |
#1, more | Used equipment: Skywatcher Refractor 6' f8 + 32 mm Kelner + Baader AstroSolar + Nikon Coolpix 5400 ISO 200, 1/2000s exposure |
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Richard
Fusniak, Cambridge UK, 6.45 am local time Jun. 08 |
#1 | A little bit blurred but this shows what can be done by photographing a PROJECTED image 1m from 10x50 binoculars. The image disc was 150mm in diameter on a paper screen. Fuji Finepix 2800 camera. |
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Adam Jesionkiewicz,
Warsaw/Poland Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3, more |
Canon 300D, FL2400, ISO200, 1/250 sec. |
more: from Michael Donovan of Buderim, Queensland, Australia ("Buderim is near the Glasshouse Mountains, which were named by Captain Cook."); |