Venus Transit Observations

Hi,

Some other amateur images and news from around Europe:

Italy: Unione Astrofili Italiani organised a live broadcast of the event in conjunction with a major Italian paper www.corriere.it/Rubriche/Astronomia/venere/index.shtml

Finland: Taurus Hill Observatory, almost 12,000 images, or 12 CD's full! They were lucky to have clear skies for the transit despite very bad forecast weather. www.ursa.fi/yhd/kassiopeia/galleria/vt20...=2&offset=0&limit=12

Czech Republic: Hradec Kralove public observatory and planetarium. Images on their website www.astrohk.cz/live/ and also on a major Czech newspaper site imgs.idnes.cz/oprilohy/infografika/vesmir/prechod/venuse.htm

Poland: www.astro.uni.wroc.pl/vt-2004/obrazy_tra...row/aleksandrow.html

Norway: It was cloudy in Oslo, but Carsten Arnholm, a name that may be familiar to some of you from webcam forums, captured this video with a 400mm refractor and a TouCam webcam arnholm.org/astro/venus/transit_divx_352x288.avi ( 1.8MB, DivX codec www.divx.com/divx/ )

Cheers,
~Al

www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk/public/venus-transit/

Check out the movies of the airplane crossing near second contact. Link from Mike Dworetsky uk.sci.astronomy

From some areas the ISS did pass in from of the Sun during the transit, I cant find any images yet though.

Cheers,
~Al

From some areas the ISS did pass in from of the Sun during the transit, I cant find any images yet though.
l

www.vt-2004.org/photos/images/vt-photo-01-toma.jpg

Tomas Maruska
Rubinar 5.6/500 with Baader AstroSolar filter
WebCam Philips ToUCam Pro 740
1/10 000 sec at frame rate 30 im/sec
[Composite of 12 frames]
June 8, 2004, 10:09:18 UT
Stupava, Slovakia

Cheers,
~Al

Check out the SOHO Lasco C3 movie at sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/

As Venus disspaears out ov view you can see mercury coming in the opposite direction.

Cheers,
~Al

Theres always (at least!) one smart aleck



news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40248000/jpg...95_robin_manford.jpg

Some images from events around the the world at http://www.vt-2004.org./photos/vt-events.html

Including a pic from Sandymount from Walter. I think thats the most telescopes I've seen at a free public event, not really giving the public much of a chance not to notice!

Cheers,
~Al