In about 13 hours, Venus will be transiting in front of the sun. I have a filter for my telescope, so as long as the sky is relatively clear, I will be filming the ingress and egress (and also taking some pictures mid transit), and will hopefully be uploading them as I can.

Unfortunately for quite a lot of you guys, you will either miss the start (Europeans) or end (Americans, except for Alaska who also gets to see it all) of the transit.

So, if and when anyone else gets Pictures or Video, post it in this thread.

Maybe they've seen us, and welcome us all.

I look forward to seeing the vids, alpha!

This image of the sun refreshes every 15 minutes. Bonus - Won't burn out your eyeballs! http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/mov/depot/APOD/latest_APOD_HMIC_FR.jpg

I'm about to head out to Mt Diablo with a telescope with filter and watch it from 4000 ft....weather looks crystal clear.

Real men don't use filters.

Dude, you should clean up your astral object crumbs but now they're stuck on the surface of the sun! CLEAN IT UP, BIG BOY

MBIG MBOY

The Sky seems relatively clear at the moment,only 2 and a half hours to go.

e: meh I'll watch the video tomorrow

aaaaaand, just as it starts it clouds over, heres hoping for egress.

Here is one of my images, you can see venus, and some sunspots.

here is another, been taking images at different settings, also, a link to some video that I got, I couldnt get the program to work for video, so I just went for direct upload to youtube which glitched a bit, though it was possibly my own fault.

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIi2jo8JgUo

Go Venus go!

this one from the SDO is ****ing awesome

45 minutes till 3rd contact, wish me luck both with visibility and with uploading.

I hope the sun jumps down your witch tube and pokes you in the eye

Those special effects are lame. Obviously fake...