June 2012: Venus Transit Flashback

The transit of Venus that occurs on June 5-6, 2012 is not observable from La Palma and therefore there will be no SST imagery from this event.

We take the opportunity to show some remade movies from the last transit which occurred on June 8, 2004. Click on the images to see the movies which show the egress of Venus from the solar disk. The right one focuses on the thin luminous aureole caused by sunlight scattered in the Cytherian atmosphere. Download the movies and play them by forcing every frame to be displayed. Or visit at YouTube: here and here.

Here is a refreshed egress image where the aureole has been enhanced.


Time-stamp: <2018-10-09 13:34:47 mats>