Derby and District Astronomical Society



The 2004 Transit of Venus from Egypt

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The following sequence of images were taken by Mike Lancaster on the 8th June 2004 from the Ocean Club Hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. He used a Meade ETX-90 with a BCF white light solar filter, and a hand-held Olympus Camedia C-4000 zoom camera using eyepiece projection from a Meade 40 mm super Plossl.

05:24 UTC


05:28 UTC


05:37 UTC


05:37 UTC in close up


05:41 UTC


06:39 UTC


07:07 UTC


08:27 UTC


09:12 UTC


11:00 UTC


11:02 UTC


11:03 UTC


11:03 UTC in close up


11:04 UTC


11:11 UTC


11:19 UTC


11:21 UTC



The Meade ETX-90 telescope used in the observations. The BBC were with us for the event, and one of their crew nearly knocked my telescope into the pool when he walked past!


English man abroad. Temperatures soared to 43°C by the end of the transit, nearly cooking both telescope and observer. Silly hat and copious amounts of mineral water were essential!



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