June Sky watching.

[Greenlantern101]

the black drop effect, venus now fully over the sun but the black drop effect makes it look still conected to space

Full entry 23.27

 

[Greenlantern101]

This is cool. Last snap shot. 23.35. Im off to bed.

 

[Mephistopheles]

On the NASA live feed we are actually seeing a mirror image of the transit which makes it a bit confusing, also people should realise that Venus is not as big as it looks compared to the sun in these images due perspective and distance...

Actually the small sunspot I can see on the above image would easily swallow Venus...

 

[Dizzi]

Got up at 5am to put up my telescope. Took one look at the thick cloud cover & went back to bed.
Hope my telescope still works in 117 years
Thank goodness we're in an age where someone else usually has a view they can share.
Thanks for posting the pictures Greenlantern101

 

[Greenlantern101]

I got up at 5am as well dizzi to see nowt but clouds. Happily went back to bed.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Well I'm glad I didn't miss that!

 

[Brogan]

A great collection of videos here: http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

[FB]

It's amazing isn't it. We all accept the fact these other celestial bodies make up our solar system but most of us never have the chance to see that they actually exist. At an open evening at my son's school they had a tracking telescope on Jupiter and you could see some of the moons around the plant. Just fantastic.

 

[GermanF1]

And here are some nice pictures: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/venustransit-im-angesicht-der-schwarzen-scheibe-1.1375666
Especially the third picture looks stunning...

 

[Greenlantern101]