Jim Loudon Observatory
Venus Transit Observations
Dolores and I observed this transit from Mt. Bigelow in the Catalina Mtns. north of Tucson, at the site of Steward Observatory's
61-inch Kuiper Telescope and the Catalina Sky Survey schmidt. She used a 500mm lens on our Canon Rebel XT with a Baader filter while I used a Questar 3.5" with a full aperture glass filter doing afocal projection with a Brandon 24mm eyepiece to a Kodak C713 camera. The seeing was variable as most daytime seeing is but the results were quite satisfying.
Here's our setup.
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Set up to the west of the 61" telescope.
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Dolores shooting images for the movie below.
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The images below were done with a Questar 3.5"
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Some interesting atmospheric effects...
![](Venus_transit_2012-06-06/2012-06-05 181b.jpg)
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![](Venus_transit_2012-06-06/2012-06-05 316c.jpg)
The final product!