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The Venus Transit 2004

... Video Clips



This page contains video clips obtained during the Venus Transit.

Note also the various animations which are available at the VT-2004 website.


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Venus and ISS Transits

Venus and ISS transits

[Quick Time - 640 x 480 pix - 0:16 min - 1.3M]

Tomás Maruska
[ ATM Slovakia]
Rubinar 5.6/500 + Baader Astro Solar filter
web camera Philips TouCam Pro
June 8, 2004 - 11:09:18
Slovakia
Wonderful capture of the fleeting transit of the International Space Station during the Venus Transit. You may have to replay the movie to see the ISS passing by! See also the corresponding photo.

Venus Transit ingress at TLT

Venus during Ingress

[Quick Time - 256 x 256 pix - 0:43 min - 3.3M]

Bringfried Stecklum
[ Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg]
Canon PowerShot S1 IS - 10x Zoom
June 8, 2004
Thüringer, Germany
[2200 images taken in continuous shooting mode, covering about 17 minutes. The image orientation seems a bit strange due to the field rotation needed to keep the solar image well centred all the time.]

Venus Transit egress at TLT

Venus during Egress

[Quick Time - 256 x 256 pix - 0:34 min - 2.5M]

Bringfried Stecklum
[ Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg]
Canon PowerShot S1 IS - 10x Zoom
June 8, 2004
Thüringer, Germany
[1800 images taken in continuous shooting mode, covering about 17 minutes.]

Venus Transit egress at

Venus during Egress

[Quick Time - 320 x 240 pix - 5:20 min - 13.5M]

Stanescu Octavian & Doru Dragan
[ ALTAIR club]
June 8, 2004
Timisoara, Romania
45.7345 N, 21.2236E
Computer captured video, camera in focus of a 10 cm mirror / 80 cm focus solar telescope

Venus 1st/2nd contacts

Venus during First/Second Contacts

[Quick Time - 479 x 299 pix - 0:28 min - 5.3M]

Thomas Strehl
June 8, 2004
Germany
[Newton 8" F4.4 with Philips Toucam. 32 avi's of 55sec at 5 frames/sec at 1min clocking]

Venus Path

Venus Path on the Sun

[Quick Time - 500 x 375 pix - 0:17 min - 3.9M]

Thomas Strehl
June 8, 2004
Germany
[300mm F4.5 Tele with 2x and Mintron VideoCCD Camera. 72 avi's of 4 sec at 25 frames/sec at 5min clocking]

Venus and ISS

Venus and ISS Transits

[Quick Time - 672 x 545 pix - 0:01 min - 679k]

Thomas Strehl
June 8, 2004
Germany
[300mm F4.5 Tele with 2x and Mintron VideoCCD Camera. 10 frames at 25 frames/sec.]

Venus Transit (Ingress)

Venus Transit (Ingress)

[MPEG - 375 x 288 pix - 0:03 min - 438k]

Herbert Raab
[ Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft]
100-mm f/9 flourite refractor
Solar Max 60 H-alpha filter
Mintron 12V1C-EX B/W video camera
[Thirty-one 30-sec video sequences were processed with Registrax software and then combined into the video]
June 8, 2004
Linz, Austria

Venus Moves Across the Sun

Venus Moves Across the Sun

[WMV - 640 x 480 pix - 0:28 min - 795k]

Leif Møller et al.
June 8, 2004
Sønderborg, Denmark

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