There are hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of Venus Transit photos blanketing the web right now. Many of them look almost exactly the same, showing the Sun with the black disk of Venus amid a pattern of sunspots that will be long-remembered. (See the previous blog posting for my contribution to this same-ness.) But when clouds and foreground are added, suddenly everyone's photo is different. The photo above is one of my contributions to this variety -- as the Sun dipped lower in the sky, there were some clouds to add interesting pixels to the image.
From San Francisco, the Transit started at 3:06 pm and continued until the Sun dipped below the horizon at 8:44 pm with the transit still in progress. The next two photos represent the bookends of my experience -- the Venusian ingress on the front end and a picturesque sunset on the back end.
You may have noticed that in the last photo above, the image of Venus has been elongated vertically. Of course, this is due to the distortion of the Sun's setting image as its light rays slog through layer upon layer of atmosphere at the tail end of its 93 million mile journey to my camera lens.
Throughout the transit, there were also various non-Venus scenes that presented themselves near my San Francisco Cliff House location. To see all 9 images, see my associated Flickr set (slideshow).
All in all, June 5, 2012 was a very memorable day! :-)
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