Transit in white light from Brissy - 8" Newt

[RobF (Rob)]

My first solar post (and processing attempt actually).
Clouds behaving for now in Brissy
450D, 8" newt, ISO 100, 1/2000, Baader solar film

Having fun!
Hope to have a go with the toucam a bit later.

[midnight (Darrin)]

Very distinct Rob and well done for a nice capture.

Darrin...

[Suzy]

Hi Rob
Beautiful pic!
I'm having great fun too taking my first solar piccies with my new Canon 1100D.
What great weather we're having.
Would you believe I just saw a plane fly thru the moon and I just missed taking pic by a few sec... doh, just when I clicked on button for the last time of that session and looking thru the view finder ... jeebies scared the life out of me. I could have been famous.

I can't get over how well the transit looks just through solar glasses!

[RobF (Rob)]

Thanks Darrin. Had some scarey moments with mount and focuser not responding early on, but all good now.

Hi Suzy!
So glad to hear you're out enjoying it too. Congrats on the 1100D - that should be awesome for astro and family. So glad I took the day off to potter and enjoy this one now, and sounds like you're having plenty of fun too.

Did you mean plane through the sun? My son and I saw another one clip it an hour or so ago - quite startling when you have the eclipse glasses on !

[Suzy]

Yes Rob- zoooooooom straight thru the bottom section of the sun- it looked super-imposed against the sun meaning it was quite large, flying one side to the other (probably would have covered up Venus transiting tho ). I've never had this happen to me, at nighttime when planes fly across, I remove my eye from the eyepiece- I can't handle the shock and bright light experience. Silly I know
Just to think... I could finally have made it in Oprah's "O" magazine... I can picture the title now... "APOD celebrity & David Malin award recipient finds time to be interviewed by Oprah".
Then Russ comes home and laughingly said, "no pics no proof"
grumble grumble grumble... knuckle sandwich came to mind.

[RobF (Rob)]

Never mind Oprah !......

" Aussie female astronomer takes pic of Travolta's plane crossing sun beside Venus "
John Travolta today offered $100,000 to buy an impossibly rare shot of his authentic Qantas replica jet crossing the sun at the exact instant of the Venus transit! Offers to take Brisbane woman on joy flight in his personal jet as well........