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Transit of Venus - June 5th, 2012, Andrew James Steinmetz

Transit of Venus - June 5th, 2012

Transit of Venus - June 5th, 2012, Andrew James Steinmetz

Transit of Venus - June 5th, 2012

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This is an oldie I took over 10 years ago using a pinhole camera setup. Literally I'm focusing the straight solar white light from my telescope onto a piece of paper taped to a cardboard box mounted on a tripod. Considering my telescope has a secondary mirror... this was NOT a smart thing to do, but the telescope seems okay still. I did melt one of the baffles doing this during another observation session. Now I use the solar-film instead of this janky pinhole thing I used to do. Even though the setup was super sketchy, I think the quality came out pretty good and the visible sunspots add a lot of character to the image.

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Transit of Venus - June 5th, 2012, Andrew James Steinmetz