ShadowsShadowsTransits and Eclipses

Images courtesy of Dr. Chris Mullis (KH7XT)

EUMETSAT, NASA, Berkin Aydogmus (TA3J) & Anthony Ayiomamitis

Lunar Eclipse

As seenin Germany

Dr Chris Mullis

Transit of Mercury

Dr Chris Mullis

Transit of Venus

Dr Chris Mullis

Transit of Venus Info

• 8 June 2004 Time-lapsed images of the planet Venus crossing the face of the Sun as viewed from Munich, Germany. The transit lasted about six hours, starting at 7:20am CET and ending at 1:23pm CET. Each second of time in this animation corresponds to 15 minutes of actual time.Details: The image is oriented such that North is up and East is to the left. Venus moves with an angular speed of 3.2 arc-minutes per hour. Venus's minimum separation from the Sun is 627 arc-seconds. Venus's disk has a diameter of 58 arc-seconds. The Sun's disk is 31.5 arc-minutes (~0.5 degrees) in diameter.

• Technical: Sony DSC-F717 digital camera manually butted to the eyepiece of a 10x80 binoculars fitted with mylar solar filters. Exposure setup - f/5.6, 1/80 sec, auto-focus on central focus region, daylight white balance, ISO 100. Field rotation corrected manually in post-processing. Variations in color, intensity, and size are artifacts; time sampling is non-uniform.

Solar Eclipse 2006EUMETSAT

Moonshadow on the Sahara

Moon Shadow over TurkeyEUMETSAT

Solar Eclipse in Turkey - by Berkin

They were quite proud of their eclipse in Turkey!!!

A 30 Lira Coin!

A 70 Kurushstamp

Transit of ISS Anthony Ayiomamitis

Transit of ISS

and STS

www.perseus.gr/Astro-Sat-Trans-2005-07-28.htm Anthony Ayiomamitis

Transit of ISS on the Moon

www.perseus.gr/Astro-Sat-Trans-2006-04-14.htm

Anthony Ayiomamitis

Transit of Deimos and Phobos on Mars

Deimos Phobos

NASA

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I put together these power points for use in my science classes.You may use them in your classes.

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Ted Brattstrom