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Left: Venus as it ends its transit across the Sun, June 8, 2004.  Only the last part of this was visible from Evansville, Indiana, and clouds and haze are in some of the frames.  The images were taken at four-minute intervals starting at 11:00:00 Universal Time, with between 20 and 50 frames being averaged from my Canon ZR45MC digital video camera (coupled to a Meade ETX-90 scope with a white-light solar filter) to make each frame of this animation..  The video frames were transferred to my computer via firewire to ArcSoft Showbiz, then processed in Registax 2 and Adobe Image Ready.

The Sun in the red light emitted by hydrogen atoms (H-alpha light).  Taken with a Nikon   Coolpix 995 camera through a Coronado Instruments 40-mm aperture filter.