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Old 08-06-2012, 06:30 AM
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Venus transit with Lunt 152mm H-alpha scope

Hi All,

Here is my take on the transit. Auckland Stardome recently acquired a beautiful Lunt 152mm H-alpha solar scope which I had the pleasure to play with last weekend It's also equipped with a Flea2 1600x1200.
I was at work during the transit, but the volunteers at Stardome captured 1 frame/sec for the purpose of automatically processing the best frames and publishing them live on their website.
I now got the raw data and had a go at combining the best frames into this image. It's only a stack of 100 frames, plus a seperate stack of 32 frames with Venus near 2nd contact, but still a nice view I think.

Regards,
Rolf
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