Venus Transit

06:33 8/6/2004 UTC

As always, Finnish weather tries to spoil all the fun, but despite of bad forecasts, Sun did peek out between and through the clouds. I had a short opportunity and took the equipment out. This is a full disk image features Venus (and clouds) in transit.

Camera: Canon PowerShot A70 digital camera | Telescope: TAL-1 110mm f7.3 Newtonian reflector | Mount: Orion Skyview Pro | Filters: Full aperture Baader AstroSolar solar filter, Baader IR/UV block | Guiding: - | Exposure: 1/200s, ISO100, f2.9 | Software: GIMP |