Venus Transit of 2004

[Martin Pugh]

Well, forecast looking gloomy for Wednesday's event.

Fortunately for me, I saw the 2004 event from Portugal, and captured almost all of it using a Toucam Pro webcam, Takahashi FS128, and a white light filter.

Processed this portion of it today - I think I see a hint of the 'black drop' (?).

cheers
Martin

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Couple of seconds more and I think you would have had it. Nicely timed image all the same, looks nice.

[RobF (Rob)]

Your gear was probably too high quality to show the drop artifact Martin!
I'd be interested in people's thought on DSLR/MPCC vs Toucam for this sort of work. Presumeably for such a bright object stacking many short frames should give superior resolution?

[Martin Pugh]

Thanks. I have all of the follow-on video too, so I can look for that in the next piece.

cheers
Martin

[Liz]

Great to see Martin.

[Paul Haese]

The forecast is looking pretty good here so you should consider flying in.

Nice image Martin, but I am hoping for something much more interesting this time around.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Good luck to all of us!
I have been reviewing heaps of images from 2004 and one thing really stands out - not too many Ha images. I guess the cost / availability of such scopes would have been a critical factor.
I expect to see an excellent coverage of Ha, WL, CaK etc. with close ups and discs galore! Bring it on!

[aljo2345]

Here is the second of the pair: Sun-Venus Transit for 2012