Venus Transit 08-06-2004 - a photo on Flickriver

Venus Transit 08-06-2004

            Early forays into astrophotography: Going through some old photos, I found this shot of the transit of Venus of 8th June 2004. It was taken nearly a decade before I had my first telescope and before I knew anything about astrophotography or image processing. The shot was taken with my old Nikon FG-20 SLR film camera on a rickety tripod. I lost the negatives so I have no idea what the exposure time was or what ISO the film was. The picture was taken with a 200mm lens and a shutter release cable. Instead of proper filters, I used numerous coloured lighting gels over the lens. Basically, I got a rough focus, pointed the camera in the general direction of the Sun (without looking through the viewfinder) and took a load of shots hoping something would come out. The pictures that came back from the developers weren't very impressive and you had to look with a magnifying glass to see Venus. The shots are pretty much of a small yellow glowing ball on a blue background. So, just for fun, I scanned the best one at as high a resolution as I could, cropped it, and then subjected it to some processing in Photoshop to see if it could be improved. I'm rather pleased with the result...but digital photography was a much-needed progression :)
   

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Taken in: UK / England / Haringey / Seven Sisters (show map)

Taken on: June 8, 2004

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