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Venusian Eclipse 2012! RARE!

  • #21
More progression...

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  • #23
No offense, just trying to take tons of pics because I won't get another chance in my life to see a transit like this... :/
 
  • #24
No, its absolutely fine, I'm actually enjoying them. Post ahead! :)
 
  • #25
Hey, don't doubt how good our medical techniques are going to get... It is quite possible that some of us will live to see the next one...
 
  • #26
More pics coming soon...
 
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  • #27
More progression...

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  • #28
More progression... almost half way now! I might be able to see it teardrop before the sun sets...

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  • #29
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  • #30
Some more progression.. .

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  • #31
Did this one by placing a white paper in front of the telescope... worked pretty damn good. You can see some of the sun spots as well.

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  • #32
Getting a little closer...

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And the last pic before the sun set... just nearly missed the last "teardrop" phase

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Well folks, thats it. Most of us will see dozens of solar and lunar eclipses i our lives, but for a venus transit, the average is one, and this has been our one transit to witness. Whens the next one? Well, thats going to happen in 2117. By then it's most likely that most of us will be dead unless some live off of the medicine of science. Maybe if a space probe goes to another star and takes photos of a planet transiting then we can see that, but not with our own sun again in our own lives. As far as I know, mercury is a lot smaller and it's transits are often hard to view because it's so close to the sun and so bright.
 
  • #33
Great photos Lance, but this is the second one for most people. There was another one in 2004
 
  • #34
Great shots. Thanks for posting.

I wanted to get out the telescope and project the image onto paper.... hard to do with cloud cover all day....
 
  • #35
great pics Lance!

Probably none of us reading this will live to see the next one, but I read something interesting lately..
An article about how humans are living longer all the time, said that "The first person to live to 150 years old has probably already been born!" :0o:
2117 is only 105 years away...its very likely that a few children who watched the transit today, will actually live to see the next one!

Scot
 
  • #36
Wondeful pics! I don't have the equipment or patience to try this, nor did we have the clear skies here. Who knows, maybe more of us will live to see the next one than we think, or science may be wrong again on predictions? Be optimistic! :)
 
  • #37
Wondeful pics! I don't have the equipment or patience to try this, nor did we have the clear skies here. Who knows, maybe more of us will live to see the next one than we think, or science may be wrong again on predictions? Be optimistic! :)

well..the next transit of Venus in 2117 isnt a prediction or a guess..its a known fact! ;)
so science definitely isnt wrong about that..these kinds of things scientists easily work out with great accuracy..
but yeah, some of might make it! you never know..
Scot
 
  • #39
Enjoyed the transit, and loved seeing your photos lance. I found the live feeds to be fascinating also.

Anyways, just quoting this up so it won't be lost in the other pages...

Nice photos Lance!

All I got photo wise, kinda a scrub, no pics of the transit itself, but some of the sun...

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Note the stars around the sun...

Fun stuff, really liking the online views.
 
  • #40
Limeslide: the screenshots I took when it first started. If you click these, they will biggerize:





 
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