Venus Transit - 6/5/12

[dr_nebula]

On the 5th of June, much of the world was treated to one of the rarest of all predicted events - a transit of Venus across the disk of the Sun. Visible as an extremely dark, sharp 'dot', this is the silhouette of planet seen against the intensely brilliant disk of our Sun. Though visible throughout the states, only beginning to mid-transit would be

Comments

[zen_kitty]

Awesome pictures! I especially love the last one.

As is typical for this area, there was no blue sky and complete cloud cover, so we watched a lot of it online.

[diamonddustshoe]

Nice! I love the sunset.

[rick_day]

*insert obligatory positive comment here*

[shysylph]

Wow!! Those are some really stunning photos. You guys had a great view of the sun and the valley below. Thank you for sharing them!

[wendles]

I love the moody sunset shot. Over on this side of the pond it was cloudy; a friend further south caught a five-second glimpse towards the end, but there was nothing at all to see where I live. I did get to see the whole of the 2004 transit though, at an open house event in a nearby village - a whole garden full of people I don't know at all were happy to let me peer delightedly through their expensive instruments and even occasionally hook my camera up to their setups. Amateur astronomers are a great bunch.