I am having to work my day off on a astromical event and i am well ****ed off about. So i will be at work, but i may be outside for some of the venus...

venus appeared a little fuzzy, would that be due to its thick atmosphere?

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Being new to astronomy I'm am so impressed. Just the ability to look at the sun (using baader film) has been amazing. Then actually catching first contact...

Being the most amateur of amateurs, I took my trusty Tasco (It was a gift, honest!) into the garden (Southampton) and managed to get a reasonable projected...

I have recently bought a Celestron Nexstar 5i telescope and have been working my way through the Auto Align procedure as described in the manual however, as I...

Hi, A lot of you probably subscribe to SAA as well, but if not, here is a SPECTACULAR image of the Venus transit, and the original post from Roland...

Venus is no longer visible. We had good weather conditions for most of the country (sorry scotland - did it clear up?) One thing, the black drop effect didn't...

It will be perfectly clear until 5 minutes before sunrise, when clouds will roll in. These will be tantalisingly thin at times, but not so thin that anyone...

looks like that's it for today (and my lifetime!) so here is my best image: http://www.sojomedia.com/venus_transit2.jpg quite pleased with this one as i...

I watched both the ingress and the egress of Venus and saw the black drop on both occasions, though frankly it was so short lived that I would not record it as...

Prepare yourself - this one's pretty crap. It was a preliminary shot to test the field before attempting something better. Unfortunately a high layer of...

Hi all, How's the transit going for everyone else? Down here near Southampton, I couldn't ask for better weather. Mark

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2004_06_08/ can i see venus in the last (blue) image? http://www.sojomedia.com/soho.jpg ("processed")

Boiling morning - what time does it all kick off ;-) -- Pete

Hi I've been viewing the transit from Nottingham. A lot of high cloud made the image blurry / soft focus but it was still enjoyable. I noticed at high power...

Has anyone had any success viewing using the pinhole method? I've tried, but can't convince myself I've seen...

Brittany France. For over a week (nay, even longer) we have had wall to wall sun with not a cloud in the sky. Yesterday it was 30 degrees (nearly 100)....

What the hell am I doing awake at this time of day? -- Martin Frey http://www.hadastro.org.uk N 51 02 E 0 47

Did anyone see the black drop? For me it just stayed rattling in the jaws of the pocket. Ha ha!