Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Venus Transit 2012


Welcome to my collection of images of the Venus Transit of 2012.  Temperatures here in Austin were in the high 90s with rain and clouds in the forecast so I did not pay much attention to the upcoming transit until I realized that there might be some hope of relatively clear skies.  I quickly rolled out my imaging setup:  Celestron CGE 1400 mount, Takahashi FS-102, Coronado 90 H-alpha filter, Lumenera Infinity 2-1M camera, put my head under a dark towel to view a live image of the sun on my laptop screen, and with great disappointment,  witnessed multiple, dark vertical lines in my image of the sun:  thermal noise.  I quickly produced a cold pack from the freezer and tied it to my camera with a towel...viola...no noise.  Below you can see the images I managed to capture from 10, 30 second avi video clips, which were processed in Registax 6 and finished in Photoshop CS5.  Hope you enjoy the images.   Clear Skies!











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