Spanish astrophotographers Oscar Martin Mesonero and Pablo Gonzalez Pena captured this shot of the transit from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Skywatcher Roy MacLellan sent this Venus transit photo taken on June 5, 2012. He writes: "Shot in Trenton, Ontario, Canada using a Nikon D2Xs with a 600mm lens."
Photographer Jeff Berkes captured this view of the 2012 transit of Venus from southeastern Pennsylvania during a brief break in the clouds. Says Berkes: It was "5 minutes that will last a lifetime."
Transit of Venus as seen from Canberra, Australia on June 5-6, 2012.
Skywatchers and scientists watch the transit of Venus through 'solar shades' under the midnight sun, 78 degrees north in Svalbard, Norway on June 5-6, 2012.
Skywatcher and photographer Colin Chatfield captured this view of the Venus transit of June 5, 2012, from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada using a Celestron C8 with a Celestron solar filter equipped with a Canon 40D
Transit of Venus on June 5-6, 2012 as seen from the Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
Photographer Jeff Berkes captured this view of the 2012 transit of Venus from southeastern Pennsylvania during a brief break in the clouds. Says Berkes: It was "5 minutes that will last a lifetime."
Skywatcher Andrew Kwon sent in this photo of the Venus transit taken on June 5, 2012. He writes: "Taken with an C8" 6.3 focal reducer, white light solar filter and modified DSLR camera." No location given.
Skywatcher Mike Nasisi sent in this photo of the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, taken in Brooklyn, NY. He writes: "It was very cloudy out but I was lucky to get maybe a 45 second window to snap this photo from my window with a Canon Digital SLR and a 28-200mm lens. Snapped at 1000th of a second at F32 and 100 ISO through a regular window screen."
Skywatcher Paraksh Vankawala caught this projected view of the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, in Cedar Hill, Texas.
Skywatcher Roy MacLellan sent this Venus transit photo taken on June 5, 2012, from Trenton, Ontario in Canada.
Skywatcher Gerry Beth Buckel sent in his photo of the June 5, 2012, transit of Venus, and writes: "We had cloud cover in Fostoria, MI which helped to get the photos."
Paramjeet Singh sent in this photo of the June 5, 2012, Venus transit. He wrote: "I got lucky in New York that I could shoot these pictures in between the clouds."
Skywatcher Mike Allison sent in this photo of the Venus transit taken on June 5, 2012. No location given.
Skywatcher Tim McCord caught the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, in Entiat, WA.
Tyler Leavitt sent in this photo of the June 5, 2012, Venus transit. He writes: "First photo of Transit through meade 90 mm telescope and DSLR adapter. It's very windy here in Vegas, so I am fighting with camera shake. Still a very beautiful thing to watch."
Skywatcher Alexander Hine sent in this photo of the Venus transit taken on June 5, 2012, in Whitestown, IN. He writes: "Yes it's grainy, but this my best attempt at taking a photo of the transit of Venus across the sun."
Skywatcher Guy Zahller sent in this photo. He writes: "Here is a photo of the transit taken from my front porch in Aptos, CA at around 3:45 PM."
Skywatcher Meggan Wood sent in this photo. She writes: "Venus transit of the sun, 6-5-12 at 4:59PM. NexStar 5SE telescope with a homemade solar filter and my Canon Rebel Xsi attached with a basic T-ring and adapter. Maricopa, AZ."
Skywatcher Amy Van Artsdalen
Skywatcher John C. Edwards sent in this photo of the Venus transit of June 5, 2012, taken in Marshall, NC. He used a 150mm reflector telescope and projection rig.
Skywatcher Tyler Leavitt sent in this photo taken June 5, 2012 from Las Vegas, Nev. He writes: "Very cool experience, so glad I was able to view it without a cloud in the sky, a benefit of living in the desert."
Skywatcher Diego Wer took this image of the Venus transit on June 5, 2012 from Van Nuys, Calif.
Skywatcher Scott Tully took this image on June 5, 2012 from Mohawk Mountain State Park in Cornwall, Connecticut.
Skywatcher Scott Tully took this image on June 5, 2012 from Mohawk Mountain State Park in Cornwall, Connecticut.
This image of a young skywatcher was taken by Noriko Nagumo on June 5, 2012 from El Marino Language School in Culver City, CA.
Skywatcher Bren Harrison took this image on June 5, 2012 from Auckland, New Zealand.
Skywatcher Samuel J. Hartman of State College, PA, took this image on June 5, 2012.
Skywatcher John Davis caught the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, in El Paso, Texas.
Skywatcher Mat Weekly caught the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, in north-central Minnesota.
Skywatcher Matt Molloy took this image on June 5, 2012 from Ontario, Canada.
Giuseppe Petricca sent in this photo of the June 5, 2012, Venus transit taken in Pisa, Italy. He writes: "The last days here in Pisa were totally overcast, but on this morning it cleared up, giving us a wonderful show! The first pic is a mosaic of the sun rising behind a local mountain, but with Venus clearly visible! The second is in the 'middle' of our transit period and the last one is the characteristic 'Black Drop Effect' near the end of the transit. All pics taken with my Nikon P90 filtered with a wielding glass".
Astronomy and Physics Professor Jimmy Westlake and his wife Linda sent in this photo. They write: "From Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, smoke from distant fires reddened the setting sun as it carried the dark disk of Venus toward the northwestern horizon. Standing in stark silhouette in apparent defiance of gravity, Balanced Rock has, no doubt, seen many transits of Venus before this one. This image is a 1/750 second exposure with a Fuji FinePix S2 Pro digital camera set at ISO 100 through a 300 mm Nikkor telephoto lens at f22. The image was snapped at 8:37 pm MDT on June 5, 2012."
Photographer Greg Diesel Walck snapped this photo of Venus transiting across the sun, with sunspots included, on June 5, 2012 from Currituck, North Carolina. Walck used a Sony Alpha A77 400mm with double digital zoom, equipped with a plano opaque tint optical lens as a filter.
Dena Sparks of Hermosa Beach, Calif., shot this scene of the sun and Venus setting behind the Malibu Mountains from Manhattan Beach on June 5, 2012. Sparks used a Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera and 70–200 mm telephoto lens with a 2x teleconverter.
Large numbers of visitors turned out for Venus transit viewing at the Chabot Space & Science Center's viewing party on June 5, 2012. The center is located in the Oakland Hills of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Guests wait in line to view the Venus transit on June 5, 2012, at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA.
