Partial Lunar Eclipse shots; Venus near the Sun

[ravnostic]

Do tell, how do you get the great variation of shades across the sun?

Clouds. ;D

Ah, Orionid you should have dragged that out into a diatribe of ‘first you insert water vapor into the air, most easily achieved by evaporating ocean water…etc.

That would have been epic. But, terse works, too. 😛 😉

[hunches]

I wish it were mine, rav – it’s my dad’s. Sorry to hear about your lost pics.

This is the only ok shot I got with my own gear (2$ solar viewing glasses :p)

Venus 4 by hunches, on Flickr

[caradoc]

[ravnostic]

I did get shots of this one, nice ones; I’ll get them up here sometime between shifts in the next couple days, hunches

[ravnostic]

Or, I’ll just get them in while I eat my ‘breakfast’ (Stouffer’s Lasagna today).

These are all processed a little differently from each other; playing with the tones is funz! They are also fuller sized than I’d post here, so links only (some are large files)

near the first contact point:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit8.jpg

Closer view using the Barlow 2x (the limiting factor is ‘seeing’ conditions, which at this scale, pretty much full res or near it, is about 1/2 arc second):

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit2.jpg

I rotated the camera (it was too hard to rotate the telescope, lolz) from the last shots, this is contact point ‘two’, when Venus fully enters the sun’s disc.

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit3a.jpg

Cropped (not through the Barlow) of the same:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit4.jpg

Half-way entry shot (hey, I don’t have time to put them up orderly):

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit5.jpg

Near the end of my viewing when the sun was much closer to the horizon, I took two closeups as Venus passed sunspots 1493 and 1496 (IIRC). Taken 5 minutes apart–Venus moved pretty slowly, but it’s evident. Atmosphere was pretty turbulent near the horizon; we had moderate winds:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit7.jpg

//edit to say I’ll be stacking some serial shots taken between those last two with 10-15 others, in hopes of bringing out some finer details

Processed for the pinks:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/jun/05/transit9.jpg

Lots more (I took some 850 shots total), but that will have to wait for time for doing stuff like stacking, etc. Besides, other than stacking, I think I’ve put up about all the ‘different’ shots I can muster from one event like this one.

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