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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f/2 + Sigma 2.0X TC @ 600mm, heavily cropped — 1/400 sec, f/11, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Venus
Between the sun and some clouds
太陽と雲の間の金星
Not too exciting, but there's the view from Kyoto.
Using my naked eye with eclipse sun-glasses, I can just make out that there's something there, if I know where to look and look carefully. It's a bit easier as the planet moves further in from the edge, but I wonder how on earth people ever noticed these things in ancient times.
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Only clouds in my part of the world (Québec, Canada) today. You know in ancien time they did not have TV or Internet so they may had more time then us to look at the sky 🙂 Just a supposition! 🙂
About the same here in Korea. Fortunately the clouds broke enough in the middle of the day to get a clear shot! http://www.flickr.com/photos/eaglekepr/7345117250/
Obvious that the ancients wouldn’t have seen a transit like this, I’m more interested though who were the first that tracked the planet’s movement at dawn and dusk and realized that when it disappeared in the daylight that it might actually be passing IN FRONT of the sun, then calculated when it would happen. Math… has never been a strong point.
in Venezuela we saw only a part of it. at sunset =( but there it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyarrj/7354380622/