Transit of Venus

[viper_larry]

In case you didn't know, Venus is currently passing in front of the Sun making a rare photo opportunity. Here's my effort below taken at 7:52am.



>>> Edited by viper_larry on Monday 18th October 21:10

[simpo two]

Nice. Direct shot or projection?

[viper_larry]

spimpo two said:

Nice. Direct shot or projection?

rojection on white card, hence the slight mottled effect. Was also shot through a double glazed window!

[simpo two]

You're smarter than me - I tried every lens I could find and nothing seemed to project a visible image of the sun.

I managed to take some pics of the eclipse in 1999 by pointing the camera straight at the sun and holding some card behind the eyepiece - but then the sun wasn't at full blast!

[DustyC]

Hopefully I managed to get one. I use welders glass to look at it.

Not really gonna be that impressive though, will basically be a black dot on a white dot.

Interesting to actually see it happening though.

[viper_larry]

simpo two said:

You're smarter than me - I tried every lens I could find and nothing seemed to project a visible image of the sun. I managed to take some pics of the eclipse in 1999 by pointing the camera straight at the sun and holding some card behind the eyepiece - but then the sun wasn't at full blast!

Not really - I was using a terrestrial telescope to get the image in the first place. You could do the same with binoculars. Just don't look through them to aim it!

I then simply took a macro image of the projection Sun

[jeremyc]

[simpo two]

Very good!