Transit at sunrise: green rim, sunspots, mirage: all at once!

[Roel]

Because bad weather was predicted throughout the whole of the Netherlands, I planned a 500km roadtrip to the north of Germany (near Lübeck) to witness the Venus transit from the coast of the Baltic Sea. It turned out to be one the greatest moments in my astronomy-life. Weather was great and I could observe from the very moment of sunrise till 4th contact.

The best views were around sunrise because of the atmosferic effects and I was extremely lucky to catch a green rim, the black spot of Venus, some sunspots, an strangely shaped Sun and a mirage reflection all in one picture. I litterally jumped around after I made this photograph! Even Venus appears to have a green rim.

(full size version: http://www.roelblog....lits_2632px.jpg)

The other images I made during this transit can be found at: http://www.roelblog.nl/2012/06/expeditie-de-venusovergang-2012-boven-de-baltische-zee/

(Click on the image for larger versions)

[Photosbykev]

A lovely atmospheric image roel, you might want to change Jupiter to Venus in your post if you can't just ask and I'll tweak it for you

[Roel]

you might want to change Jupiter to Venus in your post

Oops!!

[SkyJamie]

Fantastic picture Roel!

[laser_jock99]

Cracking image- great to get the green flash as well.

[hunterknox]

Spectacular! Such dedication deserves such luck. Truly superb.

[MidnightSun]

Very cool shot...love it.

[JB80]

Very nice shot Roel.

Lots going on and such a great way to capture such an event.

[stolenfeather]

I can understand your excitement in the light of this spectacular shot! Congratulations for making the trip and coming out with such success!

Isabelle

[Pete Presland]

great image, you must be delighted with the result

[Roel]

Thanks!

great image, you must be delighted with the result

As a matter of fact, someone actually caught me on camera right after I made the sunrise-sequence:

http://imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/822/1fte.mp4/#

You can see was indeed somewhat delighted!

[MrJulius]

Happy dance beautiful image.