|
Date + Time
............................... 6 / 6 / 2012 - 02:55 UTC
Location .................................... Skiathos
Optics .........................................
Celesston
ED 80 Apo f/7.5
Camera .....................................
Canon Eos 50D
Exposure Time........................ Different
exposures
Mount ....................................... Portable
tripod
Processing Details ................. Photoshop CS 4
Details .....................................
Guided by hand
The 2012 transit of Venus, when
the planet
Venus
appeared as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the
Sun,
began at 22:09
UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on
6 June.Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times
varied by up to ±7 minutes. Transits of Venus are among the rarest
of predictable celestial
phenomena and occur in pairs, eight years apart, which are
themselves separated by more than a century: The
previous transit of Venus took place on June 8, 2004 (preceded
by the pair of appearances on December 9, 1874 and December 6,
1882), and the next pair of transits will occur December 10-11,
2117, and in December 2125. |
