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 06/07/2012 05:07:29 AM · #1


A different newspaper published this photo, from further west in japan.
As kirbic says, it depends on how you track the transit.
 06/06/2012 11:37:26 PM · #2
I was looking at this the other day. I think it explains the path pretty well. Read the text of the video to find the answer.

Venus Path

Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Why is it curved like that?


Message edited by author 2012-06-06 23:38:17.
 06/06/2012 07:09:03 PM · #3
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Why is it curved like that?


Like any woman, Venus can be a little indecisive... ;-)

Humor aside, from a stationary point with respect to the sun and in the plane of Venus's orbit, the path would be more or less straight across. Get out of Venus's orbit, and the path will be slightly curved. Change your perspective during the transit, and the path can get more curved.
One big cause of curvature is keeping the camera level with the horizon as the sun moves through the sky. The sun will rotate in the camera field, so even if Venus were tracking straight across it, you'd get an apparently-curved track if you didn't account for that.
06/06/2012 07:05:19 PM · #4
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Why is it curved like that?


The path of Venus looked different at different parts of the world. I've got to run now, but there was a page I linked (if I did) that let you choose the place in the world and see how the transit would look, in animation.showed
 06/06/2012 06:59:09 PM · #5
Why is it curved like that?
 06/06/2012 06:24:15 PM · #6
This is from this morning's newspaper, so obviously not my work. The transit as seen from a part of Japan that wasn't cloudy. (Today would have been a good day...)

06/06/2012 03:57:27 PM · #7
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Surface temperature about 400° and an atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid -- I think I'll take Mars ...


And that's 460°C, so 860°F!
 06/06/2012 03:51:52 PM · #8
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Surface temperature about 400° and an atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid -- I think I'll take Mars ...


Have you been to Phoenix? It's not much different and people seem to love it.

No, but I've been to the Dairy Queen in Prescott.
 06/06/2012 03:32:24 PM · #9
Originally posted by vawendy:
I'm jealous of the color in people's photos (it makes me want to add color to mine!)

I shot around 6:30pm, so no sunset type colors, and I used some sort of optical filter sheet that looked kind of like mylar (there was a transit party on the top of the physics building -- with telescopes, projection, and this funky mylar sheet that I held in front of my 100-400 lens. But really no color...



Perhaps no color, but the clouds gives some extra dimension to this ones.
 06/06/2012 02:31:55 PM · #10
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Surface temperature about 400° and an atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid -- I think I'll take Mars ...


Have you been to Phoenix? It's not much different and people seem to love it.
 06/06/2012 01:56:20 PM · #11
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by LanndonKane:
Originally posted by kenskid:
Give me your opinion....

....how will the common person "capture" the Venus transit in 2117 ?


pretty sure most people will be living on venus, so

Surface temperature about 400° and an atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid -- I think I'll take Mars ...


I would say I'd take Uranus but that's being discussed already in another thread ;)
 06/06/2012 01:41:42 PM · #12
Originally posted by LanndonKane:
Originally posted by kenskid:
Give me your opinion....

....how will the common person "capture" the Venus transit in 2117 ?


pretty sure most people will be living on venus, so

Surface temperature about 400° and an atmosphere primarily made up of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid -- I think I'll take Mars ...
 06/06/2012 01:29:45 PM · #13
Originally posted by kenskid:
Give me your opinion....

....how will the common person "capture" the Venus transit in 2117 ?


pretty sure most people will be living on venus, so
 06/06/2012 01:18:09 PM · #14
I'm jealous of the color in people's photos (it makes me want to add color to mine!)

I shot around 6:30pm, so no sunset type colors, and I used some sort of optical filter sheet that looked kind of like mylar (there was a transit party on the top of the physics building -- with telescopes, projection, and this funky mylar sheet that I held in front of my 100-400 lens. But really no color...



Message edited by author 2012-06-06 13:18:55.
 06/06/2012 10:33:03 AM · #15
Great stuff. I'll just wait for the next one...I'll only be 150 or so.
 06/06/2012 08:33:54 AM · #16
Pure cloud cover here :-( Nice shots, people!
 06/06/2012 03:51:53 AM · #17
Originally posted by hajeka:
Great to see all the photos here. We had just clouds.


I agree. But we had clouds and a bit of rain, though in western Japan it was clear.
 06/06/2012 03:29:49 AM · #18
Great to see all the photos here. We had just clouds.
 06/06/2012 02:00:42 AM · #19
Wow beautiful. Photos are really beautiful. This is one of the rare moment of this century.
 06/06/2012 01:30:53 AM · #20
I made a quick animation of the first 35 minutes or so (couldn't stay there longer)

... and here is one shot from later on, near the mid-point.

These are 100% crops, no other processing except for stacking/aligning for the animation.
432mm (35mm EQ), f/3.51, 1/1250 sec, ISO 80 with approximately 4.0-density film as a solar filter.

06/06/2012 01:30:16 AM · #21


Just before it disappeared behind the clouds for the rest of the night. It never got low enough on the horizon to look at with the naked eye.
 06/06/2012 12:59:31 AM · #22
Great stuff all!
I created an animation, it didn't turn out bad at all... unfortunately I can't share it, because it doesn't seem to want to play correctly on DPC, even though it plays perfectly on my system. Ah well, it's late. Time for bed.
 06/06/2012 12:07:15 AM · #23

06/05/2012 11:41:06 PM · #24
You did it....nice job....

I went out to the lake near my house and got a few shots. More than a few people came around to check out my photos !

Originally posted by sfalice:
okay, never mind the comments from the peanut gallery. I GOT IT!
May not be wonderful, but dang, I got it.


06/05/2012 11:25:18 PM · #25
Here is one I took. It isn't as detailed as some of the beautiful ones the rest of you have posted but I was very happy to get it!



Taken with a Panasonic G1 and with the Panasonic 100-300mm lens at full zoom which is 600mm in 35mm format. I used a ND400 neutral density filter on some of my shots but it actually worked better just to hold a piece of Shade 8 welding glass in front of the camera.

Here is a link to the image on Flickr:

Venus Transit on Flickr

Message edited by author 2012-06-05 23:44:39.
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