Alachua Astronomy Club: Transit of Venus 2004

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2004 TRANSIT OF VENUS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY AAC MEMBERS

Only five such transits have been observed in the last 400 years
and no one living today has ever seen this event... until now!

On June 8, 2004, members of the AAC provided views of this transit to the public from the Florida Museum of Natural History. To learn more about this event, please visit our Transit of Venus Press Release.

Between public views, some club members were able to snap off these pictures before the transit was complete.

ABOVE: Chuck Broward took this image with a handheld Kodak digital camera through his 6-inch Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.

BELOW: A projection of the transit on a public display board. Photo taken by David Edwards.

FIRST IMAGE BELOW: A single frame of video taken just before 'third contact.' Scott McCartney took this video through a 10-inch SCT. With the help of PhotoShop, Scott then stacked 10 images from two seconds of video to render the second image (SECOND IMAGE BELOW).

LEFT. Howard Cohen held a simple "point and shoot" digital camera (2.1 megapix Canon Powershot S300) up to the eyepiece of a 76-mm, f/6.3 refractor (with Thousand Oaks Type 2+ filter) to make this crude but effective image of the transit of Venus from the Greek island of Crete at 01:33 EEST (Eastern European Summer Time) or 10:33 UT (6:33 a.m. EDT), 2004 June 8. This is approximately 53 min before the end of the transit. (The Sun was just rising for Gainesville observers when this photo was taken since the Sun rose in Gainesville about 6:29 a.m. EDT.)

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