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Black Drop Effect
First Contact plus 11 minutes.  Venus appears to be glued to the rim of the Sun's disk.  This is known as the "Black Drop Effect."

Black Drop Effect

First Contact plus 11 minutes. Venus appears to be glued to the rim of the Sun's disk. This is known as the "Black Drop Effect."




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Filename:Transit_of_Venus-20120605-0170.jpg
Album name:27telp / Transit of Venus - June 2012
Location and Date:OCA Site near Anza, California, USA, June 5, 2012
Equipment:TeleVue Pronto 70mm refractor with 60 mm Coronado Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Filter; Canon EOS-30D camera, unmodified
Settings:ISO 200, 1/60 second
Filesize:70 KiB
Date added:Jun 13, 2019
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