2012 Venus Transit in Hydrogen Alpha

Like many others, I had to deal with some cloud and a lot of rain, to witness this in person, Still, I have now seen both the 2004 and 2012 Venus transits. I have visible light photos from 2004, but this time around I had access to some better equipment. I present the 2012 Venus Transit, as seen from a little south of Batemans Bay, NSW, Australia (I had to travel over 200 km each way to get away from the clouds. Temporarily. But it was enough):

Looks hot. I guess I never thought about how the sun looks as though I was on Venus. It must be quite a site standing on that planet...

Actually, you'd have to be in orbit around Venus to see the sun; it's completely covered with several miles of clouds.

very cool, thank you for sharing this image.
Doug

archer1960 wrote in post #14539946
Actually, you'd have to be in orbit around Venus to see the sun; it's completely covered with several miles of clouds.

I am sure they would part for me....

Kronie wrote in post #14539791
Looks hot. I guess I never thought about how the sun looks as though I was on Venus. It must be quite a site standing on that planet...

The sun really wouldn't appear to be a whole lot different on Venus as it does here on Earth. We are about 92 million miles from the sun and Venus is about 67million miles....

So my guess would be that the sun would appear to be only about a 1.5x bigger? Feel free to check my thinking! LOL

What is impressive from these shots is how large the sun is!

Great shot & thanks for sharing.

If you can handle the heat on Venus yes it would be big but at 894 degrees F i doubt i would be worrying about that .

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Not In transit but still venus, taken a little while ago.......

Fantastic shot.....That's the best one I've seen so far.

Thank you, everyone, for looking and taking the time to reply. Given the limited amount of time that we had, with the rain clouds moving across the Sun all the time, I'm happy with this result. I'm also thrilled that I got to see both the 2004 and 2012 transits in person, and that I managed to photograph both.

Great shot ! Which helioscope were you using ? Coronado, Lunt ? Other ?
And which camera ? Your 7D ?

Lots of questions, haha

TC_Fenua wrote in post #14542376
Great shot ! Which helioscope were you using ? Coronado, Lunt ? Other ?
And which camera ? Your 7D ?

I used my 7D, for the extra "reach" of putting more pixels on the Sun. It was attached to the back of a friend's solar scope, which a Coronado. I'm not exactly sure of the model right now. We're both a bit new at this. My friend only took delivery of the scope less than two months ago. This was the first time that I got to put my camera on the back of the thing.

Hehe, I tried solar astrophotography for the first time last saturday, talk about late haha, and it was harder than I thought it would be, especially the focusing part, a lot less contrasty than say, shooting the Moon, or Jupiter/Saturn/Mars. that was really fun

Congrats on a great shot! Simply awesome.

Very well done!