Updated 22.6.2004

Venuksen ylikulku - Transit of Venus The first Transit of Venus in this millenium

Site: Hongisto, Kärkölä, Finland 60°46'51.0" N, 25°25'00.3" E
Time: Eastern Europen Time zone (UT+02{+01}) 8.6.2004
Telescope: JS-Telescope Thousand Oaks full aperture solar glass filter
Camera: Canon EOS D60 6Mb digital camera
Video camera: Philips ToUcam Pro digital video camera head
Software: PhotoImpact XL Windows XP

Venus passing the Sun and some clouds too
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Stacked video images and videos
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graph 4'th contact timing resulted to a 0,098 % error in AU

Expedition of three people and a few passing by
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All kind of equipment was needed
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Digicam
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