The Transit of Venus Party June 8, 2004

The sight of Venus crossing the face of the sun is a big thrill for all amateur astronomers. Transits of Venus are the rarest of all predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. So we threw a star party in the light of day for once. And we got to take pictures of our colleagues from the Bruce County Astronomical Society..............at least those that hadn't traveled to Egypt where the transit was visible in its entirety.

CAUTION: In all of the examples here, very heavy filters were in place in front of the objectives lenses of the telescopes.

NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN, PARTICULARLY WITH BINOCULARS OR TELESCOPES