My belated transit of Venus shot

I had an unsatisfying experience with the transit--set up in a great
location, but the sun kept dodging behind clouds. So I took everything
down and went to get some food, then saw that the sun had come out and
hastily set up in a less ideal location. Anyway, here is one of the
shots, with extreme contrast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3585314...n/photostream/


--
"Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS
crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in
TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in
bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither."

On Oct 17, 2:45*am, (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
I had an unsatisfying experience with the transit--set up in a great
location, but the sun kept dodging behind clouds. *So I took everything
down and went to get some food, then saw that the sun had come out and
hastily set up in a less ideal location. *Anyway, here is one of the
shots, with extreme contrast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3585314...zes/l/in/photo...

--
"Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS
crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in
TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in
bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither."

Absolutely super shot of Venus and of "GuthVenus" as hidden under
those thick nighttime clouds.

“Guth Venus” 1:1, plus 10x resample/enlargement of the area in
question:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1027362...79402364691314

What sort of weird planet geology, or that of its active geodynamics,
looks or acts anything like this?

Thumbnail images of Venus, including mgn_c115s095_1.gif (225 m/pixel)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/th...humbnails.html
Lava channels, Lo Shen Valles, Venus from Magellan Cycle 1
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ht...115s095_1.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hi...c115s095_1.gif
“Guth Venus”, at 1:1, then 10x resample/enlargement of the area in
question:
https://picasaweb.google.com/bradgut...18595926178146
https://picasaweb.google.com/bradgut...79402364691314

On 17 Okt., 11:45, (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
I had an unsatisfying experience with the transit--set up in a great
location, but the sun kept dodging behind clouds. *So I took everything
down and went to get some food, then saw that the sun had come out and
hastily set up in a less ideal location. *Anyway, here is one of the
shots, with extreme contrast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3585314...zes/l/in/photo...


Well done! That's an excellent image! You captured the penumbra of the
sunspots as well.

Do we have the details of your equipment on the big day?


Ignore the attention-seeking, potato head. He hasn't been well for a
long time.

In article ,
Chris.B wrote:
On 17 Okt., 11:45, (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
I had an unsatisfying experience with the transit--set up in a great
location, but the sun kept dodging behind clouds. *So I took everything
down and went to get some food, then saw that the sun had come out and
hastily set up in a less ideal location. *Anyway, here is one of the
shots, with extreme contrast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3585314...zes/l/in/photo...


Well done! That's an excellent image! You captured the penumbra of the
sunspots as well.

Do we have the details of your equipment on the big day?

The link I gave was to the "original size" version of the image; if you
click on the word "Photo" it will revert to the smaller display that
includes the description, which goes as follows:

Transit of Venus on June 5th, 2012. Taken from South Table Mountain,
Golden, CO with a Lumix FZ35 using teleconverter and mylar solar filter.
ISO 80, 1/400sec, f/4.4, green channel only

Does that cover everything? Oh, the teleconverter was the one sold by
Panasonic for that camera, the DWM-LT55. I'll add that to the description.

--
"Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS
crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in
TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in
bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither."

On Oct 17, 2:06*pm, (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
In article ,

Chris.B wrote:
On 17 Okt., 11:45, (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
I had an unsatisfying experience with the transit--set up in a great
location, but the sun kept dodging behind clouds. So I took everything
down and went to get some food, then saw that the sun had come out and
hastily set up in a less ideal location. Anyway, here is one of the
shots, with extreme contrast:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3585314...zes/l/in/photo....

Well done! That's an excellent image! You captured the penumbra of the
sunspots as well.

Do we have the details of your equipment on the big day?

The link I gave was to the "original size" version of the image; if you
click on the word "Photo" it will revert to the smaller display that
includes the description, which goes as follows:

Transit of Venus on June 5th, 2012. *Taken from South Table Mountain,
Golden, CO with a Lumix FZ35 using teleconverter and mylar solar filter.
ISO 80, 1/400sec, f/4.4, green channel only

Very impressive shot with a superzoom P&S camera and converter.