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Originally Posted by hotspur
Looks great,I must have had the most terrible misfunction of equipment,I saw Venus exit the same side as it came in from,it did not go all the way across like your view,What location were you at??
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Chris,
I imaged from Robertson, 12kms south of Brisbane. My equitorial mount kept the orientation of the Sun, and hence Venus, the same throughout the Transit so Venus' path looked like a straight line. However if you used a non-equitorial mount like a tripod Venus would look like it exited from the same side that it came in. I think the path I saw on a simulator was a loop about a quarter of the way in to the Sun and then back out.
Does this make sense?
Cheers,
Mario