Solar Transit of Venus, June 8th 2004
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Equipment Used

Telescope Meade LX200 10 Inch SCT
CCD Camera SBIG ST-7E
Focal Ratio f/3.3
Guiding N/A

Image Durations

The picture is a 7 image mosaic.  A 90mm solar filter was used, attached to a  BC&F Focus Master.  Even with the LX200 stopped down to 90mm,  a blue RGB filter had to be used for each luminance to ensure that the CCD camera did not saturate.   Click here to see the image fullsize

Duration (secs) Binning
Luminance 0.2 1x1
Red N/A N/A
Green N/A N/A
Blue  N/A N/A