by Rod Pommier
Telescope: Celestron Super C8 Plus with Fork Mount and Byers Drive, f/6.3 focal recucer-corrector. Camera: Canon EOS 20D DSLR. Exposures: ISO 800, 1/1000 second, all exposures. Other equipment: Thousand Oaks Optical glass, full aperture, type 2 solar filter.
Location: Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.
The transit of Venus of June 5, 2012, showing Venus shortly after first Contact. Several sunspot groups are present , granulations are visible throughout the solar disk, and faculae are visible near the lower right limb.