Venus Transit Photo's - Volume 4

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Hey, I'm going for a War And Peace length featurette on PR. Hehehe.

Actually, I'm winding down on these.

In these photo's the sun is yellow! I watched it go from red, to orange, to yellow, to white.

As some of you already know, the fog and clouds made for a natural solar filter.

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1276_1.asp

Anytime you consider photographing the sun, be sure to use proper protection. My solar filter decreases the sunlight to 1%, that's right, one percent, of it's intensity. That's a seven stop decrease. In this case, when the sun was at it's brightest, I could barely see the sun through my solar filter, and that was with my hat on and my hands on either side of the viewfinder. When I dropped one hand, I lost sight of the sun. So I shot all of these without a filter.