Animations of the Transit

Below are some animated sequences of the recent Transit of Venus.


The first moments of the Transit seen from Trondheim.
Windows Media Player-film (200 kB) / (QuickTime) / (AVI)
Photos: Brynjar Berg, animation: Ronny Mandal
The final moments of the Transit seen from Trondheim.
Windows Media Player-film (200 kB) / (QuickTime) / (AVI)
Photos: Brynjar Berg, animation: Ronny Mandal
The final moments of the Transit seen from Sandefjord.
AVI (1.75 MB)
Photo and animation: Bendik Engebretsen

Transit of Venus
4" SC telescope f/22, Thousand Oakes objective sun filter + red filter + sunshade glass just in front of the CCD chip. MX916 CCD-camera and 0.05 sec exposure time. One of the still frames shows a small group of sun spots.
Photo and animation: Odd Trondal


Images from the Transit, taken by amateur astronomers, are available here.

Have you made an animation? Submit it to venus2004@astro.uio.no!

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Created 09.06.04 av Jan-Erik Ovaldsen

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