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Tuesday evening, June 5, 2012<br>
Pacific County, Washington State<br>
<br>
<br>
Visionaires . . .<br>
<br>
Did you observe the transit of Venus today?<br>
<br>
We were projected for 30% chance of rain, today, but most of the
afternoon<br>
has been sunny, here on the coast of Washington State.<br>
<br>
The "News" reminded me of the Transit of Venus across the face of
Sun this <br>
evening, so I rushed together a "set-up" for recording this "once
in a lifetime" <br>
event.<br>
<br>
My wife and I did the photography about 7:15 p.m., PDT.<br>
<br>
The first image is software manipulated:<br>
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The dark "wart" below center on the right side is Venus. An
inexpensive<br>
pair of binoculars in reverse was used to project the image onto
8-1/2x11<br>
white paper. The less than full quality lenses is apparent by the
chromatic<br>
aberrations evident in the image below . . . Blue fringing at the
top and<br>
orange-red fringing at the bottom.<br>
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src="file:///C:/Users/SamS/Pictures/2012/2012-06-05-Venus-Transit-of-Sun/processed/2012-06-05-VenusTransitOfSun-dimsky524x524.jpg"
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Here is the hastily contrived "set-up": A pineapple shipping
carton leaning against a deck <br>
chair; white 8-1/2 white paper taped at its corners to the inside
of the carton. You can <br>
see my shadow; I used the "big-dawg" Nikon D7000 camera, hand
held. Also evident is the<br>
shadow of my wife, holding the binoculars as a "projector". We
might have procured sharper <br>
images had I used a tripod for the camera.<br>
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<img alt="" src="cid:part2.09070505.01070604@charter.net"
height="516" width="666"><br>
<br>
My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old
or so to see the next<br>
occurrence, in December 2117.<br>
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The End<br>
<br>
MoscowSam I am . . . .<br>
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