I saw the 2012 Venus transit

[Skywatcher]

I had nice skies for the transit and got a great view of the event. I saw 1.5 hrs of the transit before the heat wore me down and I called it quits.  First contact was at 5:09pm CDT and Venus was inside the disk of the sun at 5:15pm CDT. I shut it down at 6:33 pm CDT and retreated inside to the A/C. I planned to get some images with the webcam but the bright sunlight made seeing my desktop screen near impossible so I went to plan B and shot a few stills which I will post as soon as I get them out of the camera, that is, if they are worth a flip.

I hope everyone was able to view the transit and I am looking forward to seeing your images.

James C
Arkansas

[Ron]

James,

No joy here, our famous Sunshine State was nothing but liquid sunshine

Thanks for the nice report, and hope your pictures turn out.  I did mamage to to see it on NASA and Slooh.

Ron

Nice images.  It's always nice to be able to document these kind of events with photos, especially this one since we won't be around for the next one.

[neotesla]

No luck here either, cloudy and drizzling...  Watched it on Night Skies Network though.  Look forward to seeing your photos.

[Parsec]

Nice transit shots......

Unfortunately,  here we had only cloudy skies. Earlier in the day it was bright with cloud, but at transit time it resorted to it's typical dark cloud array.

I watched the transit from the NSO internet link.

A friend of mine who was watching the transit on a NASA link picked up a few frames that closely resembled  light scatter through the Venusian atmosphere.  It was quite interesting.

This was at the very onset of the transit.

I would think the exo-planet crowd, in both photometry and spectrometry would have got a lot of information from this transit to apply in their research.

Oh well, perhaps in 2117 they may have better conditions around here.


I think there is a transit of Mercury in the next several years or so. (will probably be a cloudy day here) 

[Brian Emfinger]

I setup up on at Mt Magazine...was hoping for a sunset shot but clouds move in before - http://www.realclearwx.com/060612.htm