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Originally Posted by cybereye
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
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I used an EQ mount tracking the sun too,lined it all up and never touched gear,just turned on the camera and it took all the images,I had another three scopes all on EQ tracking mounts,Venus appeared to go a 1/4 in the sun,and then go back the way it came.Your view looks like it went right across.So will stack all my images-I image it would come out,as it venus went right across??