Transit of Venus 6 June 2012
Observed: 5:04 - 6:55 CEST (Central
European Summer Time, UTC+02:00)
Location: near Vienna, Austria, N 48° 7.607', E 16° 15.060', 320 m,
on a meadow in the Vienna Woods
(Wienerwald ) called Rodauner Heide or
Perchtoldsdorfer Heide (link
to info in German), near village Perchtoldsdorf
Links: | NASA-Espenak-Info | Wikipedia German
English |
| Spaceweather: "Venus and Hubble in front of the sun" |
Pictures: Panasonic Lumix FZ100; 25 - 600
mm, f 5.2, 1/2000 - 1/400 s
(solar
eclipse filter)
(C)
Kurt Varmuza, Vienna, Austria 
120730
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5:08 CEST Ca 5 minutes after
sun rise |
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5:46 |
6:17 |
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Picture provided by Günter Hofmann (C) An airplane passes the sun! |
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6:27 |
6:37 (ca 3rd contact) |
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VIDEO: 40s, near 3rd contact
Thin clouds passing
in front of the sun make some sunspots
visible
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6:48 |
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6:51 (4th contact ca 6:55) |
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(C) Kurt Varmuza, Vienna, Austria 120730
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Observing the Transit of Venus
at Rodauner Heide
- also called Perchtoldsdorfer Heide (link
to info in German) -
a meadow in the Vienna Woods
(Wienerwald ), ca 12 km SW from the center of Vienna,
near the village Perchtoldsdorf
VK 
HG
Flowers on this meadow (pictures made March - June) |
Some botanical info
in German
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Reports and data of total solar eclipses
1999
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Zambia | 2006
Libya
Partial solar eclipe (Vienna),
2011 | Total lunar eclipse (Vienna) 2011
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