The spaceweather.com web site has an excellent gallery of photographs of last weeks Transit of Venus. I particularly liked their page 12 which show some interesting points in themselves.
The top one thumbnail is in fact a movie that shows a tiny Venus as it races across the bottom of a fiery X-ray image of the Sun. This was taken from space by the Soft X-ray Imager, onboard the GOES 12 satellite.
The fourth from the top was taken in Glen Innes, NSW - must have been about sunset since you can just see Venus above the tree line.
At the base of the page is another, similar photo of Venus on the Sun's disk through trees, this time taken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Page 11 has some photos that show aircraft "transitting" the Sun during the Transit of Venus!
Have a look at some of the other pages, some of the photographs are quite beautiful!
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