Venus transit, atmospheric glow and Venus ring

[Ransu]

Hello all

We were very lucky here where i live at Venus transit day, weather was very good and we saw transit from sunrise (3.35 am local time)

Only time clouds spoiled observing, was around third contact (15min of clouds)

We were located local higher hill, with clear wiew to horizon. We had 3 telescopes to observe, My h-alfamodded TAL100RS, my friends SW 180mm Maksutov, and other friends TAL-1

Here is some images i took.

Sunrise

Venus in white light with TA100RS

Venus in h-alfa

Venus atmospheric glow when Venus leaves sun, this was more easy to see visually, i took short look with 180mak and saw it clearly.

And last one. Most difficult planet image i have ever took. I made more than 1 meter black cardboard extension to my scope to block sun. Venus was about 2 degrees from sun when i imaged this, clouds also almost spoiled this and i was able to tookl only one short video.

Visually it was easier and saw it more clearly, what a strange looking planet, ring in the sky

But i am very happy with this, Venus ring

[jflowers]

Very nice, love the last one, don't think I have seen it like that before

[Photosbykev]

To get the Venus ring it was worth all the effort

[yeti monster]

Nice and crisp that TAL 100 shot, all of the images are great.

[Pete Presland]

fabulous images especially the Venus ring! never seen that before

[Ant]

Those images are amazing, especially the last one .

Thanks for posting them.

Cheers

ant

[nightfisher]

stunning, superb and many thanks for sharing

[zedds]

Wonderful images. Love the sunrise.

[Beulah]

Fantastic images!

[LukeSkywatcher]

Wow...........

Those have to be the best images i have seen of the transit (sorry everyone else who posted images).

#1,2 and 3 are simply STUNNING.

[Psychobilly]

Thats superb set of images from the transit...

Peter...

[Spikey]

Excellent stuff.

[Digz]

Great set, hats off to the last shot!

[jflowers]

That venus ring shot must be very rare.

[Ransu]

Thank you very much for kind responce. TAL100RS is very good telescope for solarwork, and we were lucky to get good weather in that morning. I tried to catch ring also before transit, but bad weather spoil my attempt. I think there is couple other ring images in web, from 2004 transit.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Absolutely stunning

[JamesF]

That last shot is stunning. Well done on all of them.

James

[tjensen]

Excellent work. I love the off disk ring image. Very challenging. Well Done!!

[suberman]

Your photos, and ones like these are the reason I come to this website.

[Kokatha man]

Lovely images Rauno....!

[astroman001]

Very impressive Venus ring.

regards

Peter