Venus Transit Observations

Very hazy skies here in Urlingford.
The morning started off fairly well but a small bit of cloud blocked my veief of 1st contact.
However, I did manage to see the black drop effect, second contact and the slight halo surounding Venus (i.e. the atmosphere)
At the moment the haze has got very thick with only the odd glimpse of the sun visible through the scope with solar filter.
Here a couple of pics taken so far.
The first was at 6.53 am whilst the other was taken at 7.49 am.


A very quick'n'dirty process has been done in photoshop to improve contrast and hue and to size down the file size.

Michael

Unfortunately here in West county Cork we are totally clouded out. What a disappoinmtment.
Keep them comming guys!

regards
Jouke

I'm totally clouded out now unfortunately.
Not looking promising for the remainder of the transit.

Sky News Active (press the red button) have continous live coverage of it.
Perfect conditions across most of the UK.

Michael

We're hazed out of it in Tullamore/Tyrrellspass too! Since I got up early this morning, I can see the sun's disc through the clouds at the best of times, but not bright or clear enough to show ANY detail at all...



Seanie.

Hi all.

Poor conditions at Dunsink, but we managed to get some images:

www.dunsink.dias.ie/index.html

Brian

totally clouded out in dublin now. have seen it though 5 times for short periods mostly through my binomites and once through my 6 inch f/6 reflector with a solar filter on front and a mag of 40. at least i got to see something. seen most of it though on the news on the tv.
stephen.