Venus transit 06062012 from sunny Nyngan + video

[h0ughy]

I traveled to Nyngan to see the transit as Newcastle was not a good site due to the weather. Mike Sidonio Joined me and Brad Le Brocque drove up as well. I did miss my viewing buddy Alan Meehan, I really wished you were there Al!

I have a poultry 159gig of data to sift through:rofl: but somewhere in there there must be something useable:sadeyes:

the seeing was horrible, the mount - well thats another story. the location - inspiring - it would have seen the transit last century - the Company - priceless

I have a few samples just to get something up.

we set up in the dark and we just got to see in the begining by literally seconds as we set up behind a shed where we thought we would have more clearance. there is a whole story for this journey........but that is for later


EDIT: "well here is the trip from Newcastle (http://youtu.be/uA_H4AW14JE)"


the transit video (http://youtu.be/AqVgAc0v8EE)

[gary]

Excellent stuff David!!!

Great to see the long drive paid off!

[strongmanmike]

Ah, I just posted too :P

Great few days Dave, great memories and well worth the effort :thumbsup:

Mike

[anthony.tony]

You Two are legends You Burnt a Lot of Miles and a Lot of Money on Petrol to Acheive This.Great Shots -Probably Didn,t Get Much Sleep Either - Reguard's Tony

[Dennis]

Hi Dave

Well, what an adventure, but you guys certainly returned with a lot (159GB) of booty! A great transit series as well as humorous location shots. So pleased that you managed to view and record this event.

Cheers

Dennis

[venus]

Ditto to all comments above. Amazing shots David!

[Paul Haese]

Nice going you guys. Nice shots and something to remember as an adventure.

[jjjnettie]

:) LOL you guys must have had a ball.

[SkyViking]

Great shots and great story too!

[zardos123]

I,ll look forward to seeing the processed stuff dave, but with159 gb it may take a while
brad

[Quark]

Top stuff Dave, sounds like a great expedition and great company to share it with.

Regards
Trevor

[alan meehan]

Hi Dave you certainly have returned with some great and memorable shots ,the weather out there looked very favorable ,by the looks of it the praying helped as well,a great adventure and i wish i could have been there are but theres more too come .
AL

[h0ughy]

thanks Al - Mate i really wished you were there!!! I hope your trip was successful;)

[h0ughy]

thanks trevor - i had a ball although my hear t was in my mouth when we realsied the sun was further norht than where we guessed it would be. we literally had less than 30 seconds for first contact

yes the processors are melting now

it will be a neverending story - heaps to tell

Mike is a very reserved person - very quiet, very meak, very mild.....:rofl: yeah right. he was great company and we didnt throttle each other so thats always a plus:D

Mike was a huge part in the making of the event - he is a very very gooood astronomer. He can not only put toghther tv's but lift entire mounts and move the earth - i am sure he was doing that when the sun came up and the shed was really going to be a problem. i even heard his singing the lumberjack song when the sun was nearing the tree..........;)

coming soon to a NAS meeting

If i didnt get anything for this i would have been dead. I wasnt going to miss this event - even if i had to have driven to SA or the NT I was going to get something

they are memories worth saving - and the more i was awake the more was saved ;)

Thanks for your generous help Mike. the venue really ended up making this more memorable

Thanks Gary - i really hope it will pay off - but i must be realistic. My blocking filter was flawed and will be replaced under warranty, it produced some views but it should have been crisper and without the crud. I made the most of it:thumbsup: I am certainly not in the class of Mike, Peter, Paul et al as a quality imager - I see myself as the Aldi or GO LO version :rofl: something cheap and nasty but does the trick:lol:

[h0ughy]

I have done a very rough animation (http://youtu.be/AqVgAc0v8EE) - have really yet to process and tart it up but while the moment is here....its rough, not well produced and shows where we skimmed a tree:rofl:

i might add it shows the transit from start to finish

[strongmanmike]

That's why we travelled that far, to make sure we got that :thumbsup:

Mike

[h0ughy]

:rofl: i got the timelapse of the trip off the camera - that goes quick compressing a whole days driving into 2 minutes - will post that later

[Star Catcher]

Well done David, nice full disk shots. You guys certainly made yourself at home!

Ted

[Matt Wastell]

What a trip - sounds like a hoot - you had some good company!

[h0ughy]

well here is the trip from Newcastle (http://youtu.be/uA_H4AW14JE)

[strongmanmike]

He he he classic :lol: I got my mug in there fleetingly...shame I didn't get to do that nuddie run...:rundog:

Mike

[Dennis]

Was that your vehicle on the ramps Dave?

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

LOL yes overheating radiator but all was good for the trip ;)

[h0ughy]

I am really sorry but i had to post this as a work in progress. I processed 126 video files to make a very rough stack. I still need to crop and align the images and then colour...... (http://youtu.be/SFUzyzXAqC0)

[ving]

nothing quite like an adventure to help remember the event by :)

nice work there david!

[multiweb]

Great shots. I like the animation too. When it's registered it'll be a corker. :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

well here is the next version (http://youtu.be/iLBYAUYMj7Y)

[h0ughy]

Here is the next installment Marc (http://youtu.be/-uOo_bK7LoM)

[h0ughy]

ok i an now starting to try and process the shots better - here is a sample of what i am trying to do - man this is a very steep learning curve. - now have to find out how to darken the background?:shrug:

[h0ughy]

Just resurrecting this post because it was an awesome memory from 8 years ago - my how time flies

[Paul Haese]

I got a reminder this week myself on FB about the day. The day was very cloudy most of it but eventually cleared enough for me to get this image. I was anxious all day until I had captured the last panel of data and then the long hours of processing began. The president of the ASSA at the time asked me to give up attending a big public event just so we had an image that night of the transit. It was our June General meeting and he thought we needed a good image of the transit. I obliged his request and produced the image below, which incidentally is now on permanent display at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. It was a great day after all.

[h0ughy]

Yes it is a great shot, so was Peter wards king of pain image

[redbeard]

Brilliant pictures there fellas.


I took that day off work and managed to get a few OK pics as well.

It was a great day indeed. The LX200 was in repair and I had to use the ETX-125. Cloudy through most of it from Glenalta, but when the clouds went away, yahoo!

Got to show it live to a couple of people walking past at the time. They seemed blown away.



https://redbeardpix.wordpress.com/venus-transit-2012/


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