Sounds so romantic don’t you think? What’s even more stupefying is that there is not a human being on this planet that will be around when the next one happens in 117 years from now. So for all of us, it is our last. I am sad.If you’re not up your interplanetary gossip, the transit of Venus is like an eclipse of the Sun except it’s the planet Venus that is between the Earth and the Sun. It appears too small, and is too far away to block out the sun, like a solar eclipse, but it’s just as magnificent to see.
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This image was from the live stream from a NASA telescope at the big observatory in Hawaii.
I did make a half baked attempt to shoot the transit but I wasn’t well prepared. My tripod was at a client location, and I was too distracted this week to get a proper filter (welders’ glass or mylar eclipse filter) so my only hope was to stack 3 ND filters together, including a singray variable ND, and a 24X ND, plus a polarizer plus 2 infrared filters!
What a stack!
Of course they didn’t all screw together – some had no outer threads, one was a Cokin, and managing all these and hand holding the old Nikon D70 (because i didn’t was to ruin any of my other cameras in case the sun burned right through all my additional glass), was no trivial task!! I’m sure I was a frightful sight.
But anyway not much turned out from my photo session, but I did like the strange look of this one – it looks quasi- cosmic. I’m sure if I look really hard I can see Venus passing by. Ah, so romantic indeed, the goddess of love passed right before my eyes. And what a sight to see.
And will it be 117 years before we meet again….
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