White light Venus Transit from Brisbane + 3 videos + Commemorative images

[von Tom (Tom)]

Some images I caught of the event, using a 12" Dobsonian, Canon EOS 600D in still and movie mode, and 5x Powermate for the closeups.

The image of the ship is a composite of a Venus transit photo and a photo I took of the replica HMB Endeavour from April last year as is made its way past Pottsville to Brisbane on its circumnavigation of Australia.

Also some video:
Ingress (16x speed):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwnW8...2&feature=plcp

also:
http://youtu.be/SlJj6qBir10

and a highly magnified video of the planet leaving the disc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUVV...1&feature=plcp


Thanks for looking

Tom

[Derek Klepp]

Thanks Tom

[von Tom (Tom)]

Video added

[von Tom (Tom)]

Video of transit commencement added.

[Liz]

Wonderful Tom.

[Deeno]

Nice!
Always something a little original....

[bkm2304 (Richard)]

Your Australian shot will be the one shown years into the future, Tom! A great piece of astro - history!

Thanks for the image,

Richard

[Nico13 (Ken)]

Nice work

[jjjnettie]

I always love your work. You're such an original.

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks all for the kind words. I've added a composite shot of 8 full frame stills.

Tom

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

they look great Tom, nice and sharp!

[naskies (Dave)]

Love the newspaper shot - it's one that makes me immediately think "that's clever!" and wish that I'd thought of it That first shot is nice and sharp too.

[Dennis]

Lovely set Tom – always something different from you to pique the interest!

Cheers

Dennis

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Very beautiful and very original! Thanks for sharing.

[FlashDrive (Col)]

Love them all .... especially the ' News Paper ' shot ... that's one to put in a ' Time Capsule '

Flash

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Great series Tom, and I agree with the comments above regarding the newspaper image - very clever!

Cheers,
Stephen

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks everyone. Yesterday the Australian ran with the image I took of the transit projected on the paper's date

[von Tom (Tom)]

Video of the planet leaving the disc added:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqUVV...1&feature=plcp

Tom

[RichardJ (Richard)]

Hi Tom,

Fantastic work! Flew up to Brisbane and helped out at the Planetarium all day (showed the sun to >1,000 people). Also managed to take some still shots. Observed the ingress and egress visually and your video gives me a great momento. The black drop effect was fabulous.

Thanks again.

Richard J.

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks Richard.

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