Transits of Venus and Mercury by Terry Cuttle |
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Details |
Equipment: |
Pentax 330RS compact digital camera Afocal with Celestron C8 with 26mm eyepiece. Thousand Oaks solar filter (ND5). |
Date And Location: |
Transit of Venus: 8 June 2004 0558 UT from west of Roma Qld
Shown as an inset at the same scale is Transit of Mercury: 7 May 2003 0558 UT from Scarborough, Qld.
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Media: |
CCD |
Exposure Details: |
1768mm EFL (Camera zoom lens set at 23mm) f8.8, 1/25th sec for Venus and 1/50th sec for Mercury) ND5 solar filter. |
Processing Details: |
Photoshop used for combining images, adjustment of curves and unsharp mask. |
Astronomical Association of Queensland 2006. www.aaq.org.au
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