The Venus Transit 2004

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS passing in front of the Sun

[Animated GIF - 640 x 480 pix - 584k]

John Locker
8-inch LX90 + TouCam + solar filter
June 7, 2004, 14:22 UT
UK
More information at this site.

Venus Transit and ISS

[640 x 480 pix - 42k]

Tomas Maruska
Rubinar 5.6/500 with Baader AstroSolar filter
WebCam Philips ToUCam Pro 740
1/10 000 sec at frame rate 30 im/sec
[Composite of 12 frames]
June 8, 2004, 10:09:18 UT
Stupava, Slovakia

[More information about this unique photo is available at this webpage by the author (with a video) and the sheet with predictions issued before the event. See also the video available at the VT-2004 website.]

Venus and ISS Transit

[680 x 557 pix - 67k]

Thomas Strehl
300mm F4.5 Tele with 2x and Mintron VideoCCD Camera.
10 frames at 25 frames/sec.
[Composite of the 10 frames showing the ISS. See also the video available at the VT-2004 website.]
June 8, 2004
Germany

Airplanes

Venus and the Passing Airplane

[Animated GIF - 640 x 480 pix - 2.6M]
[Single frame - 640 x 480 pix - 128k]

Yannick Le Garrec
255mm Newtonian telescope
[An Airbus 320 (Paris-Madrid) passes exactly in front of Venus' disk near the moment of the second contact]
June 8, 2004, 05:35:55 UT
Cerny, France
More images at this site

Venus Transit and the Airplane

[416 x 336 pix - 16k]

Carlos J. Royo and Sebastià Torrell
70-mm Refractor f=500mm
ToUcam Pro II
Raw image - one frame
June 8, 2004
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Transiting Venus and the Airplane (1)

[720 x 571 pix - 165k]

Vaclav Priban
Dablice Observatory
Telescope finder
MTV-73K11 TV-camera
June 8, 2004
Dablice, Prague, Czech Republic
[More information at this site.]

Transiting Venus and the Airplane (2)

[720 x 569 pix - 164k]

Vaclav Priban
Dablice Observatory
Telescope finder
MTV-73K11 TV-camera
June 8, 2004
Dablice, Prague, Czech Republic
[More information at this site.]

Transiting Venus and the Airplane (3)

[720 x 570 pix - 163k]

Vaclav Priban
Dablice Observatory
Telescope finder
MTV-73K11 TV-camera
June 8, 2004
Dablice, Prague, Czech Republic
[More information at this site.]

Transiting Venus and the Airplane (4)

[720 x 569 pix - 161k]

Vaclav Priban
Dablice Observatory
Telescope finder
MTV-73K11 TV-camera
June 8, 2004
Dablice, Prague, Czech Republic
[More information at this site.]

Birds

Venus Transit and the Bird

[320 x 240 pix - 3k]

Rafael Navarro and Ismael Cid
ALCATEL ESPACIO premises
Meade ETX-70 refractor with Astrosolar filter
Meade electronic eyepiece
15 fps video
[Composite of four consecutive frames]
June 8, 2004
Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

Venus Transit and the Bird

[768 x 576 pix - 54k]

Octavian Stanescu
Astroclub ALTAIR
Selfmade 100mm equatorial telescope; f=800mm
Photo-video camera
June 8, 2004, 11:03:01 UT
Timisoara, Romania

Venus and Bird Transit the Sun

[568 x 513 - 35k]

Tomas Kozak
June 8, 2004
Prague, Czech Republic

Venus and Bird Transiting the Sun

[768 x 576 - 35k]

Marek Marcinkowski
June 8, 2004
Pokowice, Poland

Venus and the Bird (1)

[800 x 640 pix - 168k]

VT-2004 Team
Slovak Union of Amateur Astronomers
Observatory Rimavska Subota
4/300mm teleobjective with AstroSolar filter
CCD camera SHT
June 8, 2004, 07:50:08 UT
Rimavska Subota, Slovakia
More images at this site

Venus and the Bird (2)

[800 x 640 pix - 168k]

VT-2004 Team
Slovak Union of Amateur Astronomers
Observatory Rimavska Subota
4/300mm teleobjective with AstroSolar filter
CCD camera SHT
June 8, 2004, 05:31:55 UT
Rimavska Subota, Slovakia
More images at this site

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