Mount Wilson Observatory: Seeing Venus Transit 2012 (Photos)

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Ellerman Camera in the Observing Room

Mount Wilson Observatory/ USC Dornsife

Ellerman Camera in the Observing Room of the Mount Wilson Observatory’s 60-Foot Solar Tower Telescope. The Venus transit of 2012 occurred on June 5.

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