Really cool shot, Heiko. The extra mm's from 400 to 1000 really does the trick. We never saw Venus that far away from the edge of the sun here. Maybe when it was right on the horizon, but it didn't shine through the fog until 6:30 Eastern American time.
Cheers, Jostein > -----Original Message----- > From: Dr. Heiko Hamann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pics of the Venus transit > > > Hi Jostein, > > on 08 Jun 04 you wrote in pentax.list: > > >Adelheid and I are now at the Outer Banks on the coast of North > > Adelheid should have taken you to Germany - we had perfect weather ;-) > You can find a pic from the transit here: > http://www.mycroft.de/temp/IMGP5012.jpg Taken with a Russian MC-MTO-11CA (1000/10) and an *istD. Attention - 3MB! Cheers, Heiko
