Photo Gallery from the observation session of the Venus transition, 8th June, 2004

©Astronomy Club 2004, Science and Technology Council, Students' Gymkhana, IIT, Kanpur

Setting up the telescope to observe the transit of Venus.

A huge number of people turned up to be the witness of this phenomenon.

Some more adjustments......

Venus Just started crossing the Sun.

A good black spot can be observed at the edge of the Sun, yes , it's Venus.

A little blurred photo but the black spot can be observed.

A nice view of the Venus crossing the Sun.

A little closer view of Venus transit.

Just observe the black dot (Venus) at the edge of the bright spot which is son.

One more picture!

Now, one can see the transit properly.

A more nice look on the Venus.

Blurred image, but Venus is visible.

Venus, a little bit inside from the edge of the Sun.

Venus as the Black dot.

Blurred but the Venus can be seen very easily.

Full view of Sun and the shadow of the Venus over it.

One more image!

The team that make this journey to be easiest to have on the hard disc of your computer.

Amar V. Chandra, Ashutosh Gupta, Rohan Moitra, Sumeet Agarwal, Saksham Agarwal, Dinesh Gurnani