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Transit of Venus Taken from the Royal Observatory Greenwich on 8th June just before second contact. Not quite the Black Drop but I'm pleased with it. Link-words: Venus Eclipse Sun

Transit of Venus

Taken from the Royal Observatory Greenwich on 8th June just before second contact. Not quite the Black Drop but I'm pleased with it.

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File information
Filename:GSR_VenusTransit.jpg
Album name:Greg / The Sun
Rating (5 votes):22222
Link-words:Venus / Eclipse / Sun
Image date, time and location:8th June 2004
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:3 1/2 inch Questar using a handheld video camera. About 50 frames manually stacked and processed in Photoshop??.
Filesize:9712 Bytes
Date added:Jun 10, 2004
Dimensions:240 x 153 pixels
Displayed:604 times
URL:http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/displayimage-140-_Transit_of_Venus_.html
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