Venus approaching its lower conjunction (between earth and sun), appears in broad daylight as a thin crescent of a rare beauty ... This page includes several pictures captured in days preceeding or following june 8th 2004 Venus transit.
Venus catured on 30 may 2004 with a Vesta Pro camera fixed on a MEADE LX200 8" telescope equipped wit a lengthened 3x Barlow lens (F/D= 36). 8 pictures were combined.
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Venus captured on 5 june 2004
with a Vesta Pro camera fixed on a MEADE LX200 8" telescope
equipped wit a lengthened 3x Barlow lens (F/D= 36). 43 pictures
were combined.
The crescent extension longer than half of the circumference
reveals the venusian atmosphere.
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Venus captured on 6 june 2004
with a Vesta Pro camera fixed on a MEADE LX200 8" telescope
(F/D= 10). 22 pictures were combined.
2 days before transit, crescent extension is 2/3 of the
circumference.
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Here is a "4 days old"
Venus captured on 12 june 2004 with a Vesta Pro camera fixed on a
MEADE LX200 8" telescope equipped wit a lenghtened 3x Barlow lens (F/D= 36). 22 pictures were combined.
Notice the inverted phase consecutive to transit.
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Venus captured on 20 june 2004
with a Vesta Pro camera fixed on a MEADE LX200 8" telescope
equipped wit a lenghtened 3x Barlow lens (F/D= 36). 20 pictures
were combined.
Crescent extension has been decreasing to half the circumference.
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