Venus Transit

I hope this does not violate any Photo.Net rules. This is the second

time I have submitted this image for critique. Since there is so

little in the way of astrophotography submitted to this site, I

thought I might submit, or resubmit this image which I first posted

over a year ago. Just trying to get some fresh feedback on this

image and to stimulate some discussion on this subject. I trust no

one is offended by this.

 

Thanks.

 

Venus Transit I

This comment referers to several images I am posting for review

today: This image was recorded on film utilizing a home made solar

filter (mylar material if the image is coloured or baedar "foil like

film also refered to as a white filter" if the image is white). I

used a 1200 mm f11 Bausch and Lomb Smcmidt-Cassergrin reflector, with

or without a manual 2X TC, employing prime focus, which is the lens

conected directly to the camera; no telescopic eyepiece employed. The

exposure date is incorrect.

Camera Canon EOS Elan 7E

Film / Media Fuji Velvia RVP50

Filter or Filters Homemade Mylar Solar Filter, Rokunar 2.0 manual

teleconverter.

Technical Details: exposure unrecorded,auto bracketing.

I don't know much about the rules but, having not been here a year ago, I appreciate your re-posting. Fascinating image; sorry to hear that you haven't got the exposure information for that would have been interesting. Also curious to know why venus is the shape she appears ...? Showed it to my son - "an orange with a worm hole ..." Astrophysics or perception. Thanks!

Stuart,

 

Thanks for the feedback. Jogging my memory, the apeture on the lens was a fixed f11 w/o the TC and f22 with it. It was a manual lens with no electronic feedback to the camera, so the exposure meter on the camera read an apeture of "00". When I used this lens, I will always bracket my exposures in 1/2 stop increments from -2.5 to 0.

Stuart,

One more thing. The large orange object is the sun and Venus is passing in front of it, silouetted.

 

Thanks

Duane

I like this picture very much.. I have one also at about the same moment in time but a few thousand kilometers to the east away, in Romania, were the whole transit was visible. I guess that it will be my turn in 2008 to make a photograph about the same?

Best wishes!