Venus Transit 2012!!!

Today's Venus transit was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was mostly sunny until about 2:30pm, then it cleared up until there were no clouds in the sky. I set everything up and began taking pictures at 3:00pm with my 6 inch Dobsonian, Baader Solar Film, and Son A300 DSLR. At 7:15pm the Sun sank below some trees so I called it a day and loaded the pictures. Here they are (click to enlarge).

Time-lapse

Sulfuric Atmosphere (notice the hazy outside glow of Venus' thick atmosphere)

"Blackdrop" effect

5:40pm

4:10pm