Back in June 2012 a celestial event that wont happen again for another 105 years occurred, it was the transit of Venus in front of the Solar disc.
At the time we were lucky enough to travel to the island of Santorini in Greece to see the transit as it would give us more time and hopefully better weather than further north where we lived at the time.
The whole trip was fantastic, the weather was perfect every day but then on the morning of the transit I woke to be greeted with the scene below.
At the time we were lucky enough to travel to the island of Santorini in Greece to see the transit as it would give us more time and hopefully better weather than further north where we lived at the time.
The whole trip was fantastic, the weather was perfect every day but then on the morning of the transit I woke to be greeted with the scene below.
Needless to say that this didn't inspire me with much hope of being able to catch the rising Sun with transit in full swing. Thankfully though the cloud was only localised over the island and down to the horizon it was clear leaving a thin gap between the ocean and the clouds.
I didn't take any specialised imaging equipment over with me just my camera and 75-300mm zoom lens and I also fashioned a white light filter for the lens from a Pringles container, still I managed to capture a few nice images and I'm glad I did because the next opportunity to see a transit of Venus is a long ways off.
I didn't take any specialised imaging equipment over with me just my camera and 75-300mm zoom lens and I also fashioned a white light filter for the lens from a Pringles container, still I managed to capture a few nice images and I'm glad I did because the next opportunity to see a transit of Venus is a long ways off.
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