Solar Eclipse from Prince Albert in May 2012

On May 20 2012 a partial Solar Eclipse was visible and these images were seen from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Transit of Venus

It has been way too long. I have been quite busy and actually have photo editing still to do and post from back in January! But, although I am over 6 months behind, I'll still do another couple of posts from the last few weeks. These three images are ones that I just had to take. The transit of Venus (exactly what it sounds like, an "eclipse" of the Sun by Venus) has only happened (now) eight times since the invention of the telescope! The next one will be in 2117 and who knows if I'll be around to see it. The following images were taken with a 250mm lens, through one sheet of welders glass. Not excellent, but it got the job done. If you look close you can even see some sun spots.
Venus

Transit of Venus

Transit of Venus Behind Clouds

The Sun - Le Soleil - El Sol - Die Sonne - Il Sole

This weekend I helped out with a public solar observing session in Confederation Park. We had 3 solar telescopes set up. This was essentially a part of the '100 hours of Astronomy' for the IYA. Here is a picture that I was able to get holding my camera up to the Coronado eyepiece. If you look VERY carefully at the top left, you can see some slight prominence. The sun has been going through a very slow cycle the last little while so there isn't much activity to speak of on the surface or on the edge. For more photo's of this events and anything else, see my flickr photostream here.

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