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| Venus' atmosphere lights up! Photo: the observatory at La Palma | Picture of the Transit of Venus taken at 12:29h with a 82 mm Nikon landscape telescope projecting onto paper, photographed with a Nikon Coolpix 4500. Photo: Erik Brenna. | |
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| Here are three pictures of the Transit of Venus taken at the null meridian in the south of Spain. -Meade ETX-125 and Canon PowerShot S 30. I used 4 filters. Photo: Kjell Jørgensen | ||
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| Venus when it emerged from the cloud banks on the morning of June 8. The picture is taken at 0557h UT with a 4" SC telescope at f/22. I used a Thousand Oakes objective sun filter + red filter + sunshade glass just before the CCD-chip. Camera MX916 CCD and 0.05 seconds exposure. Photo: Odd Trondal | Picture of the Transit of Venus taken from Møvig Fort outside Kristiansand, in brilliant weather, through a telescope with a H-a filter Coronado and a 90 mm Meade ETX with a Thousand Oaks filter. The H-a filter shows, in the morning hours, a magnificent protuberance which I have never seen before. Just after 2nd contact, this protuberance disappears. Photo: Trond Hugo Hermansen, the Astronomy Association in Agder | Picture taken with a 10" f/6.8 SC down 8cm + MX91 CCD-camera and red filter. The image is a mean of 10 single images each at an exposure time of 0.06 seconds. Angular distance from the Sun is 3 degrees 20'. The phase is about 300 degrees. The difference from yesterday's picture is not as great as expected. Photo: Odd Trondal |
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| Picture of Venus taken on June 6 07:46 UT. Photo: Carsten Arnholm. Telescope: Vixen 90mm refractor (focal length 1000mm) Mount: Vixen Super Polaris Camera: Philips ToUcam 740k with Baader IRB filter Recording: K3CCDTools2 1197 single frames Processing: K3CCDTools2, stacked 285 images Histogram adjusted in Registax2 & Photoshop 5.0 |
Picture taken on June 5 14:20 UT with a 10" f/6.8 SC down to 8cm + MX916 CCD-camera + red filter. The image is a mean of 28 single frames still through the foliage of a cherry tree and through thin clouds with an exposure time of 0.07 seconds. The phase is about 270 degrees, but can we detect some light as far as 300 degrees? Photo: Odd Trondal. | Picture of Venus taken on June 5th, 1312h UT. Photo: Carsten Arnholm. Telescope: Vixen 90mm refractor (focal length 1000mm) Mount: Vixen Super Polaris Camera: Philips ToUcam 740k with a Baader IRB filter Recording: K3CCDTools2 1199 single frames Processing: K3CCDTools2, stacked 328 images Histogram adjusted in Photoshop 5.0 |
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| Two pictures taken with a 10" f/6.8 SC down to 8 cm. MX916 CCD-camera + red filter. The images are means of about 10 pictures with an exposure time of 0.05 seconds. The sickle is now around 40 degrees short of becoming a ring. Photos: Odd Trondal. | June 5th: Today's Venus through a Takahashi 60mm focal length 700mm with webcam. Photo: Geir Haga. | |
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Picture of Venus taken on June 3rd, 1600h UT. Photo: Carsten Arnholm. Telescope: Vixen 90mm refractor (focal length 1000 mm) Mount: Vixen Super Polaris Camera: Philips ToUcam 740k with a Baader IRB filter Recording: K3CCDTools2 3596 single frames Processing: K3CCDTools2, stacked 1829 images Histogram adjusted in Photoshop 5.0 |
The picture is taken June 1st 2303h(UT+2) from
Trondheim, as the Sun sank below the horizon. Photo: Stein Wasbo.
Telescope: SkyWatcher 804, 80mm f/5 refraktor, with 3xBarlow lens. Mount: Orion EQ-1 Camera: Philips ToU 740K with an IR-blocking filter from Mogg. Processing:Recording with K3CCDTools, about 200 frames stacked in Registax. |
Picture of Venus taken May 30th, 1300h
UT. Photo: Carsten Arnholm. Telescope: Vixen 90mm refractor (Focal length 1000mm) Mount: Vixen Super Polaris Camera: Philips ToUcam 740k with Baader IRB filter Recording: K3CCDTools2 3000 single frames (10fps, 300 sec) Processing: K3CCDTools2, stacked 922 images |
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| The picture is taken afocally with a Coolpix 995 camera through a refractor of 400mm (the image is stacked/processed). Photo: Carsten A. Arnholm. | Picture of Venus taken early in April during the daytime. The picture is 10 exposures with a kernel filter, edge enhance hard. Equipment> 120 mm acromate with Meade LPI Autostar Suite. Photo: Ole-Jonny Kinn. |
Venus photographed May 21, 2004, between/through clouds and in strong turbulence. Photo: Carsten A. Arnholm.
Technical data:Time: May 20, 2004, 1631 UTTelescope: Celestron C8, F10 Mount: Vixen GPDX Camera: Vesta SC3 B/W webcam (i. e. modified camera) Filter: Atik IRB filter Recording: K3CCDTools2, 600 single frames Processing: K3CCDTools2, 68 single frames stacked |
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| Venus photographed May 12, 2004 at 20:22. This is 3 exposures 1/400 s, ISO 100 F4, put together and adjusted with RegiStax, then adjusted the red channel 2 pixels up with Carsten's AstroAlign. No sharpening. Telescope: Orion Starmax 127. Photo: Hans K. Aspenberg. | Picture taken from Sandsli outside Bergen May 9, 2004 at 20:18 UT. Technical data: Camera: Philips ToUcam Pro II CCD webcamera. Telescope: Meade ETX-90EC, Primary focus with 2x Barlow. Image captured and stacked using K3CCDTools. Photo: Odd Høydalsvik. | Venus photographed May 7, 2004. Photo: Erling Nordøy. |
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| A series of pictures recorded in the spring of 2004 clearly showing how Venus' phase changes as the planet moves closer to the Earth and grows in angular diameter. Turbulence has caused a slight variation in image quality. Refraction is also responsible for some colour refraction. Photo: Erling Nordøy. | ||