My first image of the Transit of Venus - Melbourne

[stephenb]

A quick image of the Transit this morning from sunny Melbourne.

10" Dob, TV 27mm Panoptic, iPhone 4S.

I have several avi files yet to process. I'm sure we'll see more images in coming hours and days... Clear skies everyone.

[AdamJL]

Terrific!!!! What a jaw dropping sight :)

[iceman]

Great!

[WadeH]

Thanks for that Stephen, great shot.

It is looking like I will have to live the transit through the work of others. Full cloud cover with little patches of sucker brightness. I'm still hoping.

:mad2:

[Suzy]

Nice!!! Thanks for sharing Stephen.:thumbsup:

[stephenb]

Fully clouded over here (typical Melbourne :mad2:) Anyway, I'm sure they'll be far more impressive images coming soon from other members. :thumbsup:

[mbyrr]

Yeah bummer, but as you said expecting some awesome captures from our IIS pals! :D

[ZeroID]

Excellent Pic Stephen !! Well done and thanks.
Got about 20 minutes of clearish sky about 11.00 am and had the 80mm at work so set it up and got a view. Managed to show about a dozen or so people before clouds moved back over and they haven't cleared since. And look unlikely to .......:shrug:

But at least i got to see it in real life ( as opposed to Reality Life ) and I was not expecting to. Better than a slap round the head with a wet mullet. :P
Amazing to see, sunspots and all. Now watching on events.slooh.com while I work. And the few who did see at work were so thankful, quite worth while.

Still looking out the window, you never know your luck ...:rolleyes:

[gregbradley]

Fantastic shot.

Greg.

[MartinM]

The last photo I got before the clouds defeated me. Taken at about 14:28 est.

[Forgey]

Nice Stephen, I sat through and persisted through the melbourne weather too.

[Keltik]

Got a couple of pics through my homemade refractor using the iPhone handheld up to the EP:eyepop:. The telescope is a 127mm achromat objective from Surplusshed, the focusser a Moonlite single gear, the eyepiece my plain old Meade 20mm 2". I managed about 15 minutes of observing from the carpark at work in the aptly-named town of Sunbury in Victoria. The clouds promptly rolled in after this pic, and work prevented me from hanging around for the chance of another shot. But I did it!!!:rofl:

[Paul Haese]

Nice image, lovely colour.

[MartinM]

Approaching 3rd contact. Clouds were the biggest problem all day.