Venus Transit

See the movie created from these images! We were able to take a few exposures through the clouds (20 second exposures on the Sun!) and get some stuff just after third contact (right), where the first edge of Venus hits the edge of the Sun as it's leaving.

With perks including (but not limited to) glasses like these, why doesn't everyone want to become an astronomer?

There's a group shot of those that stuck it out to the bitter end (minus Kelly, who took the shot).

Not much of a transit shot... but it's still a pretty good shot of the sun over the Charles.

There's everyone enjoying the transit.

And just James enjoying the transit...

And everyone watching James enjoy the transit.

How's that for an action shot? It takes a lot of practice to get that good at viewing through a telescope.

You can see the solar filters used in this shot pretty well, which look like mirrors at the ends of the telescopes. We only had one 8" filter, so we left the lens cap on the other one to prevent accidents.