Michael Hotka's
Venus Transit 2012 Pictures


I tried to use my old, 35mm Pentex camera, like I had in the past, but today, it would not focus. Didn't have time to figure out why. So I did some projection onto a screen, and Barbara, my wife, took the pictures while I held the screen steady in the very brisk wind. I also put my digital camera up to my 80x eyepiece and snapped some fantastic pictures. The 162x images just didn't turn out.

Event Projected onto Screen. 4:35 PM.

Eyepiece Projection into Digital Camera. 4:35 PM. Notice cloudy haze in image.

Eyepiece Projection. 5:31 PM. Clouds persisted.

Eyepiece Projection. 6:25 PM. Sky is clear now.

Eyepiece Projection. 7:05 PM.

Event Projected onto Screen. 7:20 PM.

Venus and Sun low in West. 7:40 PM. Venus well over 1/2 way across Sun's surface. Eyepiece Projection.

Transit of Venus is almost over in Broomfield, Colorado. 7:45 PM. Eyepiece Projection.


 

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