[Vision2020] Venus Transit of Sun

[Sam Scripter]

Tuesday evening, June 5, 2012
Pacific County, Washington State


Visionaires . . .

Did you observe the transit of Venus today?

We were projected for 30% chance of rain, today, but most of the afternoon
has been sunny, here on the coast of Washington State.

The "News" reminded me of the Transit of Venus across the face of Sun this
evening, so I rushed together a "set-up" for recording this "once in a 
lifetime"
event.

My wife and I did the photography about 7:15 p.m., PDT.

The first image is software manipulated:

The dark "wart" below center on the right side is Venus. An inexpensive
pair of binoculars in reverse was used to project the image onto 8-1/2x11
white paper. The less than full quality lenses is apparent by the chromatic
aberrations evident in the image below . . . Blue fringing at the top and
orange-red fringing at the bottom.



Here is the hastily contrived "set-up": A pineapple shipping carton 
leaning against a deck
chair; white 8-1/2 white paper taped at its corners to the inside of the 
carton. You can
see my shadow; I used the "big-dawg" Nikon D7000 camera, hand held. Also 
evident is the
shadow of my wife, holding the binoculars as a "projector". We might 
have procured sharper
images had I used a tripod for the camera.



My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old or so 
to see the next
occurrence, in December 2117.

The End

MoscowSam I am . . . .
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