Updated 22.6.2004

Venuksen ylikulku - Transit of Venus The first Transit of Venus in this millenium


Site: Hongisto, Kärkölä, Finland 60°46'51.0" N, 25°25'00.3" E
Time: Eastern Europen Time zone (UT+02{+01}) 8.6.2004
Telescope: JS-Telescope Thousand Oaks full aperture solar glass filter
Camera: Canon EOS D60 6Mb digital camera
Video camera: Philips ToUcam Pro digital video camera head
Software: PhotoImpact XL Windows XP


Venus passing the Sun and some clouds too
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09:04UT
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09:05UT
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09:10UT
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09:25UT
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Stacked video images and videos
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10:52UT
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11:02UT
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0.6 Mb video
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graph 4'th contact timing resulted to a 0,098 % error in AU

Expedition of three people and a few passing by
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All kind of equipment was needed
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telescope
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Webcam
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Digicam
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GPS
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PC
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Stuff


Linkki havaintoretkitarinaan - a link to a story in finnish

Tarinaa Etelä-Suomen Kosmologisen Seuran sivuilla


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