Venus Solar Transit 2012
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This series of images were taken on Tuesday June 5th, 2012. This was a fantastic event to witness first hand as I had missed the previous transit which occured in 2004. Venus' transit began at approximately 5:05pm CDT, and my very last image was captured at 7:48pm. CDT. The solar image is a mosaic of 15 images, with an additional 16 images showing Venus' position every 15min after the initial egress.
Equipment: TELESCOPE: Orion 100ED refractor @ F/9. MOUNT: Celestron CG-5 ASGT. CAMERA: Imaging Source video cam, DMK21au618.as FILTERS: Baader Planetarium Red filter, and an Orion glass solar filter. SOFTWARE: Registax V6, Photoshop CS3.
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