RE: [APML] Imaging the Venus Transit

[astropix@att.net (Geoff Powers)]

 Jeff Ball writes:
> I am thinking along the lines of Kent on this one.  I am racking my
> brain on a foreground/horizon object...

 Hey Jeff...

     Venus will displace approx. 57.5 arc seconds of space from our Earthly perspective during this upcoming transit. There is no one alive on Earth today whom has seen a Venus transit. 

     The transit will be more than half over when the sun rises in the eastern US. The transit will not be visible to west coast viewers. Less than 1% of all human beings whom have ever lived, have been aware of a transit of Venus... much less had the chance to see one!

     Undoubtedly, an Eastern Hemisphere imager with a narrow band-pass filter and a digital imaging device will get the 'Ultimate Exposure' for this one... but I think that *Focal Length* and *Fast Film* will make the best image for those of us in the Eastern US... those whom want to shoot film, that is.

 Best...   :o)

--
 Geoff

http://home.att.net/~astropix/


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