Venus Transit
June 8, 2004
On June 8th 2004 this rare celestial event took place again and it was perfectly observable from the Netherlands. For my observation site the circumstances where perfect, starting at 15° altitude and ending at 61° altitude, I could see the whole transit from my backyard. For an explanation of this rare event please click here.
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Transit parameters for my home place (51°34'15” North, 5°28'15” East).
| Event | Time | Azimuth Sun | Altitude Sun |
| External ingress | 05:19:52 UT | 72.1° | 15.2° |
| Internal ingress | 05:39:42 UT | 75.8° | 18.2° |
| Maximum transit | 08:22:31 UT | 108.8° | 43.1° |
| Internal egress | 11:03:52 UT | 164.2° | 60.6° |
| External egress | 11:23:21 UT | 173.4° | 61.2° |
I decided to devide the whole transit into three parts, the ingress, the path of Venus over the Sun and the egress.
The ingress was captured with my 150mm Newton telescope in prime focus (F=940mm) with a Baader sunfilter and a ToUcam Pro.
During the ingress I made 1 image/second each with an exposure time of 1/100s.
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| 05h25m10s UT |
05h30m10s UT |
05h35m10s UT |
05h40m10s UT |
Animation of the ingress
At the end of the ingress the so called black drop effect could be seen.
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| 05h39m15s UT |
05h39m52s UT |
05h40m06s UT |
05h40m38s UT |
Animation of this black drop effect
The path of Venus over the Sun was captured with a 250mm telelens with a Baader sunfilter and a ToUcam Pro. During this session I made 1 image per 15 seconds each with an exposure time of 1/1000s.
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| 05h45m02s UT |
07h29m47s UT |
09h15m17s UT |
10h54m47s UT |
Animation of the path of Venus
The egress was captured with my 150mm Newton telescope and 2x barlow (F=2400mm) with a Baader sunfilter and a ToUcam Pro.
During the ingress I made 1 image/second each with an exposure time of 1/33s.
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| 11h03m53s UT |
11h09m53s UT |
11h15m53s UT |
11h21m53s UT |
Animation of the egress
© Copyright Rob Kantelberg
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