Can you see the dark edge of Venus in this shot.

I lost you,
you dont see the differance between what ??

Sorry to be the party pooper. I dont think its there. I do see what you mean in the second image, but I think its the mind seeing something it expects to be there, i.e the completion of the circle. What I mean is the eye sees most of the disk of venus and the mind fills in the rest. The thing to do is mask off the silhouette of venus against the sun and then ask yourself do you still see the feature. I dont.

Just my opinion tho!!!!

These are fantastic shots Dave. Right out of the top drawer!! WTG

I think you're right Dave, but worth exploring all the same.
Interesting, a funny arrangement of noise all the same.
Did anyone here go back and look at their images they got to see if that captured a real cresent ??

I managed to see part of the disc at this time during the transit. It looked more like:
bass2000.bagn.obs-mip.fr/vt2004/atmo5.gif

From that image you can see that the effect is more pronounced where venus touches the suns limb. From my notes it looked a lot more ovbious near the suns disc than that image shows, whether this was due to atmospherics or optics I dont know, not every image taken shows it.

In your image it appears that the atmosphere is only in a part of the disc of venus and most obvious (for a given definition of obvious! perhaps imagination is a better word!) away from the suns limb. This would lead me to conclude that it is just our minds seeing patterns in the noise.

Sorry!

Cheers,
~Al

I lost you,
you dont see the differance between what ??

Between teardrop effect and blackdrop effect - when Venus makes 2nd and 3rd contact...

ah, got you Seanie.

Gosh lads, no need for all the sorries, it makes no odds either way.