Venus Transit and Clouds Movie

In an attempt to find a clear area to view the Venus transit, I drove down to southern New Jersey. Unfortunately I didn’t go far enough south or west to get away from the cloud cover. During the transit, a few tiny sucker holes would cross the face of the sun and show Venus transiting the sun for a few fleeting moments. This sequence of 4 images gives viewers a taste of what I had to deal with during those few short hours of that event.

90mm, f5.6 Orion Short Tube refractor + Majestic Optics custom Inconel glass filter, Canon T1i, 4 images, 1/640-second each, ISO 800, Losmandy Gemini G-11 EQ mount, near Mullica Hill, New Jersey. 08:06 EDT, 5 June 2012.