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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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Herman
Heyn, Baltimore, MD Jun. 08 |
#1, more | "Every 17 years, a dozen states from Delaware to Illinois are treated to a springtime emergence of the Brood X (Magicicada septendecim) periodical cicadas. The inch-and-one-half, red-eyed, winged, noisy but harmless insects arrive in astronomical numbers. Year 2004 CE is the first since 797 CE that the two great periodical phenomena, a Brood X emergence and a transit of Venus, have occurred simultaneously. As there were no telescopes around in 797 CE, this photograph taken June 8, 2004 in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park by astronomer Herman M. Heyn, shows THE WORLD'S FIRST Brood X cicada ever to watch a transit of Venus." |
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Kris
Culotta, Baltimore, MD USA Jun. 08 |
#1 | And elsewhere in Baltimore... Kris Culotta photographed the silhouette of this cicada crawling across his solar filter. "Fortunately I had high speed mode on. Always have to be ready for that opportunity!" says Kris. |
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Kevin Ty, Cebu City, Philippines Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | Images were taken by James Kevin Ty of Astronomical League of the Philippines (ALP) from Cebu City, Philippines using TV-101 refractor with 2x Big Barlow and Canon EOS 300D digital camera. Baader 3.8 Solar Filter. 1/1000 sec exposure at ISO 100. |
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Jean-Louis
Badin, Noisy le Grand , Seine St Denis, FRANCE. Jun. 08 |
#1, more | Télescope : Lunette Zeiss AS 100/1000 avec Coronado de 90 mm + Tune Max + BF 15. WebCam : ToUCam Pro capteur N&B mode RAW. == Capture == Temps de pose : 1/1500 pour le globe. 1/250 pour la protubérance Nombre d'images : 10 images par seconde pendant 30 secondes. |
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Alan
Murta, North London, UK Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | Intes MK-66 Deluxe 152/1800mm Maksutov, Toucam Pro webcam, Baader solar filter. 450 video frames stacked. 2x Barlow used for close up. |
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Larry
Landolfi, Shot through early morning fog in Rochester, New Hampshire Jun. 08 |
#1 | Canon 10D camera, Sigma 170-500 APO lens at 500mm (800mm equivalent) |
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Ralf Vandebergh,
Netherands,south of Jun. 08 |
#1 | This image shows Venus during egress,and the atmosphere of the planet is visible as a tiny ring just crossed the solar limb. Taken with 6 inch FH refractor and videocamera Sony TRV740E in normal mode |
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Boris
Stromar, Zagreb, Croatia Jun. 08 |
#1, #2 | Sun projection through a 60mm russian refractor. Sequence photographed with a Intes MN-71 + 2x barlow, artificial color added. All taken with Nikon F80 & Konica Centuria 100 slide. |
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James
Holloway, Newton Iowa USA Jun. 08 |
#1 | We thought we where going to miss the transit and then the sun climbed out of the clouds and gave us a good look:) Olympus om1 400 asa 1/250s |
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from Keith Shank of Stockholm Sweden;
from Frederick N. Ley of Athens, Greece;
from gaoxing8888@hotmail.com
of Urumqi, Xinjiang, China; from Jan
Adelaar at Oud Zevenaar near Arnhem, the Netherlands; from
André Müller of Aachen, Germany; |
