The 2004 Transit of Venus
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Summary: Every 120 years or so a dark spot glides across the Sun. Small, inky-black, almost perfectly circular, it's no ordinary sunspot. Not everyone can see it, but some who do get the strangest feeling, of standing, toes curled in the damp sand, on the beach of a South Pacific isle.... Get the full story from Science@NASA.

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  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Riccardo Robitschek, Giovanni Maria Caglieris,
Milan, Italy
Jun. 8
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Venus 2 minutes after 4th contact showing halo and bright polar spot aligned with the north pole of the planet ( north is about 45° down-left on the image). 2Ĺ H-alpha-coronograph image at 2,5 m equivalent focal length on 4 ˝ inch refractor and Starlight-Xpress MX512 CCD camera with mechanical shutter set at 1/250, taken by Riccardo Robitschek and Gianmaria Caglieris, Milan (Italy) on 08.06.2004, 11h 26m UT.

Duane Clausen,
Menominee, MI
Jun. 08
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I took these images of Venus and the Sun the morning of the 8th with the Menominee Lighthouse Pier in the foreground.

Michael F. Borman,
Evansville, Indiana
Jun. 08
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Members of the Evansville Astronomical Society observe & photograph the Venus Transit from Reitz Hill overlooking the Ohio River.

Ed Magowan,
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Jun. 08
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A rare cloudless June morning in NW Florida. We were able to watch the entire ~45 minutes from the first appearance of the sun as it rose over Escambia Bay. Digital Rebel on Celestron Ultima 9.25.

Alexandre Amorim,
Florianopolis, Brasil
Jun. 08
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Sketch taken from a solar projection using 60mm f/13 Refractor. The event was observed at 11:21:20 to 11:23:30 UT

Rémi Boucher,
Mont-Megantic, Quebec, CANADA
Jun. 08
#1

Here in Quebec, we only got the end of the transit, but it was pretty spectacular to see the sun rising with Venus' silhouette in front of it.

Marko Myllyniemi,
Ilmajoki, Finland, EU
Jun. 08
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Photo details : 8.6.2004, 8:36:44-8:38:59 Finnish summertime (UT+3h), Ilmajoki, Finland. Solarfilter + Newton 200/1000 mm + 30 mm ocular, Casio QV-5700 digicam at ocular magnification

Michael Schmidt,
Klein-Winternheim, Germany
Jun. 08
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All pictures of this century-event were taken with a Philips ToU Webcam and a C8.

Juan Carlos Casado,
Observatory of Castelltallat, Barcelona (Spain)
Jun. 08
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This image shows the central phase of the last venus transit. Perfect clear skies and good seeing. 152 mm aperture Newton-Maksutok telescope with a Nikon Coolpix 995 camera.

more: from Don Murad of Genoa, Ohio; from Sylvain Weiller of St Rémy les Chevreuse, France; from Brian Oyer of Syracuse, NY; from Sander Klieverik of the Netherlands; from Gennady Marchenko of Kharkov, Ukraine; from Fred Calvert at Cold Spring Observatory in Cold Spring, Kentucky; from Lee Graham of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; from Giancarlo Ubaldo Nappi of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; from Christopher Go of Cebu City, Philippines; from Mariano Ribas of Buenos Aires, Argentina; from Dan Schechter of Nauset Light Beach in East Chatam on Cape Cod;

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