Tag: venus

We had a perfect weather all day long and 15 minutes before the transit started, dark clouds rolled in and ruined the show! I got these two shots before the sun completely disappeared behind the clouds  … I also uploaded some pictures of my camera and binoculars with the solar filters. I built the binoculars...

A quick reminder … Don’t miss the last Venus Transit until 2117! It starts today (june 5th) at 22:09UTC. Venus will be visible against the solar disk for about 6 hours. The transit ends at 04:49UTC. More of my pictures of the 2004 Venus transit on my astrophoto website at astrophoto.ca....