Updated: 2004-06-08 16:00 UTC

Images of the 2004 Transit of Venus.



Live WebCam Images of the Venus Transit on 2004-06-08.

Worth Hill Observatory, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England.



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Live Images of the Transit of Venus on 2004 Jun 8th:



04:00 UTC - The sky is clear. The Sun will rise shortly. We are ready to GO! Images shortly.

Some interesting clouds over the observatory, yesterday. "T" for Transit?

05:20 - Venus making a small chunk out of the Sun now, but we have a comms failure with the camera system. Windows networking is so flaky. The Windows ME machine just cannot see the network. Every setting has been checked and rechecked. This isn't where we wanted to go today.

Some of the people and equipment here today.

Images posted later in the day, via floppydisknet.

Venus Transit at 05:21 UTC05:21 UTC

Venus Transit at 05:36 UTC05:36 UTC

Venus Transit at 05:38 UTC05:38 UTC

Venus Transit at 05:40 UTC05:40 UTC

Venus Transit at 06:02 UTC06:02 UTC

Venus Transit at 06:20 UTC06:20 UTC

Still a comms failure, but here is a snap from the other scope, delivered via good ol' floppy disk.

Venus Transit at 07:00 UTC07:00 UTC

Venus Transit at 07:28 UTC07:28 UTC

Venus Transit at 08:00 UTC08:00 UTC

Venus Transit at 10:09 UTC10:09 UTC

Images above through 70 mm Ranger telescope, and ToUCam webcam.

Images below through 50cm Newtonian reflector stopped down to 100mm, again with ToUCam webcam.

Venus Transit at 11:02 UTC11:02 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:04 UTC11:04 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:05 UTC11:05 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:09 UTC11:09 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:13 UTC11:13 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:19 UTC11:19 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:21 UTC11:21 UTC

Venus Transit at 11:22 UTC11:22 UTC

At least 100 visitors on site during the morning, and over 80 000 hits on the website so far today. Update over 100 000 for the day in total.

Viewing in Hydrogen AlphaViewing the Sun in Hydrogen Alpha rveals often hidden features, storms, flares, and prominences on the Sun. Today, however, there were only two extremely small spots, and one of the tiniest of prominences possible.

Viewing the Sun safelyAll the kids wanted to see, all at once, so the safe filtered glasses from the Solar Eclipse a few years ago came in handy.







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Location:

Worth Hill Observatory, Dorset, U.K.

Latitude: 50deg 36min N     Longitude: 002deg 02min W     Elevation: 130 metres     David Strange.