Venus transit
June 5-2012
Image details:
What we have here is a lot of neat stuff in the sky, 3 body's in our Solar System, 1st the ground (Earth), 2nd the black dot on the Sun is Venus, 3rd the Sun, (setting), the dark speckels in the sun are hot sun spots they are about 10,000 degrees fahrenheit. This will be the last Transit of Venus till 2117, (105 years.)
Technical details:
Equipment: Canon 60D at Prime focus using Celestron focal reducer, Celestron 8 inch schmidt cessigrain on Orion Skyview Pro Mount.
Date\Location: June 5-2012, Union Star Missouri
Image processing: ISO 100, prime focus, 8000sec
What we have here is a lot of neat stuff in the sky, 3 body's in our Solar System, 1st the ground (Earth), 2nd the black dot on the Sun is Venus, 3rd the Sun, (setting), the dark speckels in the sun are hot sun spots they are about 10,000 degrees fahrenheit. This will be the last Transit of Venus till 2117, (105 years.)
Technical details:
Equipment: Canon 60D at Prime focus using Celestron focal reducer, Celestron 8 inch schmidt cessigrain on Orion Skyview Pro Mount.
Date\Location: June 5-2012, Union Star Missouri
Image processing: ISO 100, prime focus, 8000sec
