A small teaser I put together from the material (~20 GB) we took when Venus transited across the Sun last month. Unfortunately, a lot sharpness got lost due to conversion from .mov into .avi and finally into .flv for this blog video preview. But also keep in mind that these pictures were only recorded with a common webcam and an amateur telescope. In real time the sequence you see would have been taken about 24 minutes, which I did speed up by a factor of eight. I also added some decent music composed by John Murphy.
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I hope you like it! 🙂

Even in this low quality video, some of you may have recognized the so-called black drop effect. This optical phenomenon usually happens during both beginning and end of a transit and appears as a small black “teardrop” connecting Venus’ disk to the limb of the Sun. The next transit of Venus will occur in 2117.

p.s.: I will send the complete movie with a higher resolution to everybody who is interested. Just drop me a note!