Venus transit Riverland SA - composite added

[Shiraz]

Conditions could not have been better after some very ordinary days. What an exciting time, watching it come onto the disc and imagining how the early astronomers would have felt when they saw the same view.
Celestron 80 achro on GSO Skyview, QHY5c and film+green filter.
thanks for looking. Regards Ray

[Paul Haese]

Nice White light image Ray.

[iceman]

Nice and sharp Ray!

[Shiraz]

thanks Paul, Mike - weather was excellent here. Now need to work out how to put together a full disk composite. Regards Ray

[DavidU]

Sharp as ! nice one Ray.

[astronobob]

Mighty Fine Take Ray !

[RobF]

Stunning shot really. Nice work!

[StephenM]

Very nice Ray! I was also thinking about astronomers of the past trying to measure the Astronomical Unit as Venus crossed the Sun's limb.

Out of interest, where in the Riverland were you? (I'm from Berri originally)

Cheers,
Stephen

[Shiraz]

thanks Dave



thanks Bob



Thanks very much Rob



Hi Stephen - yes the history is what made this so fascinating. I was in Lyrup and gave a solar system presentation to some junior schoolkids in Berri the day before.


For interest, have attached a composite showing the whole sun. Could not sharpen quite as much since panel boundaries were too obvious. Regards Ray

[Nico13]

Good one Ray not too bad at all.

[Clayton]

Very nice Ray :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Wookie]

Great stuff Ray, top effort.
Seems I should have driven out to you.
:)

[Dennis]

Excellent series Ray – love the composite!

Cheers

Dennis

[Paul Haese]

Ooh Yeah, I like it. This is close to the best white light disk I have seen from the transit. Sharp detail with some plague up near the upper right. Very nice work.

[asimov]

Very nice results Ray. The full disk shot is awesome mate!

[Shiraz]

thanks Ken



hi Rob thanks



looks like you did OK anyway Ryan



thanks a lot Dennis



very generous comments Paul - I was pleased to get some detail



thanks very much Asi

regards Ray

[Quark]

Very crisp Ray, a fine record of this event.

Regards
Trevor

[h0ughy]

great work there

[Shiraz]

thanks Trevor. what an amazing thing to see - great to have a record of it.



thanks David - looks like you had a good time as well.

regards Ray