Venus in front of the sun by RNitze

Photography • Space • posted on Aug 19, 2004

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This picture shows a part of the venustransit in front of the sun this year (June, 08, 2004). This will happen in June, 06, 2012 once again. After that we are not able to see this again. (Our life is to short, we have to wait more then 100 years). This picture was taken with a Minolta Dimage Z1 by using the full zoom. No teleskop or something like this was used. To protect the camera and eyes I used a "eclipse shade". CAUTION!!! Never watch the sun without protecting your eyes and your camera equipment. Serious eyedamage and damages to your camera can be the result!!! Thank you for looking to my pictures. Comments are welcome! Best, Reinhard

Comments (6)

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DreamersWish

12:06PM | Thu, 19 August 2004

This is just stunning. I do love space and I would love to capture something like this once in my lifetime. You captured it beautifully.

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Metonicus

1:03PM | Thu, 19 August 2004

As soon as we saturated the sky with our artificial lights and radio waves we lost interest, and (even worst) our wonder of the celestial sphere. Pics like this serve to remind us of our puny portion of the existence granted to us by whatever archetect there is of this vast and unimaginable universe we live in. Sadly, the period of our existence which the saturation of our skies has occured is a brief blinking of the eye of Cronos and we are doomed to the fate of all his children.

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