Transit of Venus, June 5th 2012 - a photo on Flickriver

Transit of Venus, June 5th 2012

An image of the sun showing the planet Venus in transit. This was taken near Austin, Texas at around 7pm on June 5th, 2012 and shows the last Venus transit of the 21st century (the next will be in 2117). This is obviously a heavily cropped image. It was shot with a 400mm lens on a crop sensor body. 12 stops of filtration were used to reduce the sun's glare enough to shoot the image. I was very careful to use LiveView when focusing and never looked through the viewfinder. As a result, my sight is still intact :-)

This image featured in Flickr Explore for June 6th, 2012.

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Taken on: June 5, 2012

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Camera: Nikon D90, f/32.0, 1/4000 sec, 400mm (=600mm), ISO 1000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D90
Lens:	70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/32.0
Exposure Time:	1/4000 sec
Focal Length:	400mm (35mm equivalent: 600mm)
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 (Windows)
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