We tried to use my (very old) telescope to watch the transit of Venus earlier this evening. We dropped a UV filter from my camera in the end and covered the (white) reflection plate with black construction paper to try to tone down the intense sunlight, but even with all that…the pictures were not so great.
This is probably the best one – you can see a little “chip” where it’s just starting to cross in front of the sun.
Carolyn drew a chalk picture of what we were doing. That came out much better!
