Skies By Africa

Images of the Heavens By Eric Africa

The Sun in 2012

When I first created this solar page for 2012, I had hoped to have reports on the annular eclipse Venus transit. I am pleased to report that I have been successful! Please see the links below for image galleries of both events, along with articles on the events and my first attempts at creating animations of the sequence. Please note the size of the animations before downloading.

Unless otherwise stated, all images were shot with a Lunt LS50 filter and BF1200 blocking filter on a Borg 76ED telescope. The telescope was mounted on a Celestron CG5 AS/GT mount. Camera used was an Imaging Source DMK 21AU04.AS camera. Images were captured in monochrome via IC Capture, then stacked using AVIStack and colorized in Photoshop. Some monochrome images are also included in this batch to show off the level of detail that can be pulled out by the pure monochrome data.

Eclipse Annular Eclipse
Gallery
Eclipse Report
Animation (4Meg!)
Transit Venus Transit
Gallery
Transit Report
Animation (5Meg!)
April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS
April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS
April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS
April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS
April 7 April 7 - DMK 41AU02.AS
March 18 - original size, monochrome March 18 - First light with a bigger camera! DMK 41AU02.AS March 18, Inverse Color March 18, inverse color
February 26. Original Size, monochrome February 26 - original size, monochrome February 26 - upsized 50%, color February 26 - upsized 50%, color
February 26 - original size, monochrome February 26 - original size, monochrome February 26 - upsized 50%, color February 26 - upsized 50%, color