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Mogens
Winther, Denmark and Australia Jun. 08 |
High school teacher Mogens Winther combined his own images of the Venus transit, obtained in Denmark, with images captured in Australia by a GONG network telescope. The result, shown here, demonstrates parallax--Venus' shifting position as viewed from two widely separated locations on Earth. This is what 18th and 19th astronomers tried so hard to measure; the parallax angle could be used to calculate the distance to Venus and, thus, the size of the solar system. |
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David
Finlay, Sydney, Australia Jun. 08 |
#1 | Tourists climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge silhouetted against the setting sun (4:45pm). Venus was only halfway across the sun at sunset. Photo taken from the Opera House. Photo Details: Canon D60, 35-350mm lens. |
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J.
Devroede, Brussels, Belgium Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3 | Just a couple of pics about the feeling of the transit in my room, projections on white cardboard and some larger on the wall, small 60mm refractor and basic digital cam. Two rare events : the transit itself of course and no rain in Belgium! ;-) |
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Jelmer
Siekmans, Winsum, Groningen, Netherlands Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | I took this picture by beaming the light coming from my telescope onto the wall of my house. |
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Bill
Williams, Everglades National Park near Big Cypress National Preserve, southern Florida, USA on Alligator Alley, mile marker 63 Jun. 08 |
#1, #2, #3, more | The sun just peaked out of these clouds 2 minutes before third contact -- very fortunate! |
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John
Stetson, Southport, CT Jun. 08 |
#1 | The morning clouds parted to reveal Venus. |
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Jadran
Kale, Sibenik, Croatia Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | Mihovil Kale, age 3, observes the transit. Digital extraction from Sony MiniDV Handycam. Binoculars used are 80x20 with tripod, thanks to Boris Kronja. |
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Sébastien
Kersten, Namur, Belgium Jun. 08 |
#1 | First contact plus a solar prominence! |
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Jeff
Delmas, Huntsville, Alabama Jun. 08 |
#1 | This photo was taken at 6:02 CDT using a Sony DSC-V1 shooting through an 8” cat. The viewing at our site was delayed about 15 minutes due to a bank of low clouds in the East, which are still seen in the photo obscuring a portion of the Sun. |
more:
from Bruno David of Reims, France;
from Yu Jun of Nanjing, Jiangshu, China;
from Noeleen Lowndes at Tamborine
Mountain in Queensland, Australia; from
the Nojum Webcasting Team in Tehran, Iran; from
Andrew J. Brown of Chelmsford, England, UK; from
Bachir El-Youssef of Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon; from
Jaco Pretorius & Theuns Alberts of Pretoria, South Africa; from
Thierry Lombry of Brussels; from
Paulo
Cacella
of Brasilia, Brazil; from Dominic Cantin
of Quebec City, Canada; |
