SPACE.com Image Gallery: June 8, 2004: Venus Crosses The Sun, Part Two

Venus Crosses The Sun, Part Two

The Transit Has Begun

Enjoying the 2004 Transit of Venus from Stuttgart, Germany, astronomer Stefan Seip recorded this fascinating, detailed image of the Sun. Revealing a network of cells and dark filaments against a bright solar disk with spicules and prominences along the Sun's limb, his telescopic picture was taken through an H-alpha filter. Here, the dark disk of Venus seems to be imitating a giant sunspot that looks perhaps a little too round. Click to enlarge.

Stefan Seip