Transit Of Venus From The South Downs

[Adrian]

Got up at 3am to see a beautiful moon out of the window - It was still there when I set up at 4:15

The horizon, however, was cloudy and more came in.

I knew there was a clear patch coming though (met office satellite imagery) - it was just a race against time. Unfortunately 3rd contact came & went before the sun and the cloudline met:

Canon 350d, 200mm f3.5 M42 lens with 3x teleconverter (hence the soft focus effect ) on a CG5. I was just hitting the manual release whilst looking through the scope so exposure was all over the place (forgot to block the viewfinder ).

So glad I got up

[Viv]

Nice ones Adrian !

[RikM]

Lovely sequence of shots

[Photosbykev]

nicely captured. I was in my car overnight with the gear setup outside but saw nuffin Ah well another chance at 21:17 tonight

[JamesF]

Well done. Seems like an awful lot of people were desperately waiting for a break in the cloud this morning...

James

[Gina]

Well caught I wasn't so lucky - cloud gap and sun didn't match up.

[Adrian]

Thanks Peeps. I am over the moon to have got anything... I knew it was worth trying though.

The cloud gods owed me a little, having been under cloud for the eclipse in 1999 and a little busy (& scopeless) in 2004.

Right! 5 January 2014 there's a transit of Earth... now we just have to get to Jupiter to see it