Venus

This wonderful picture from the 1-meter Swedish telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands shows the bright ring around Venus caused by sunlight refracted through Venus' atmosphere. (The ring has been enhanced 9 times.):

A beautiful H-alpha picture of the transit by Stefan Seip from Stuttgart, Germany:

An unusual picture of the International Space Station transiting the Sun during the Venus transit!:

Gently cross your eyes and merge the two images together to see a 3-D view of the beginning of the 2004 Venus transit.

Here I am viewing the transit under crystal clear skies in Italy:

Finally, a movie of the transit in white light from the Dutch Open Telescope in La Palma, Canary Islands.