The eleven photos tonight cover the Transit of Venus from when I got my camera setup on our front porch at 5:23 PM to 7:45 PM when the sun fell behind trees and the fence on the west side of the property. I had to move a couple of times, and as the sun got lower in the sky and filtered through trees and clouds it became more yellow/orange. You can see how Venus was slowly moving down the right side of the sun, and it got about half-way down before I lost the sun behind the trees and the fence. As the sun gets lower and more yellow/orange other spots become visible. At first I thought the other spots might be dust on the lens or sensor, but since they seem consistently placed on the sun, but I placed almost every shot in a different location in the frame of the un-cropped photos to cover the reflection between the lens and filter, I believe they may actually be sun spots.
Off Center & Not Even 
Oh wow, these photos are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
Thanks, Juanita.
-Thanks for sharing Venus with us 🙂
Fabulous images!!
The spots you got on the sun are indeed sunspots, as I compared them with the satellite images from MIDI from that day and they are in the same place as the sunspots were that day. So that’s pretty cool… 😀
[…] Spunk got hold of a roll of paper towels and proceeded to create kitty art with it — a combination of performance art and “realtime” sculpture. Tristan called in the afternoon and asked if I was going to photograph the partial eclipse of the sun. I didn’t have neutral density filters with me, so I poked a pinhole in a business card and had Bruce focus the eclipse on a sheet of paper while I photographed it (last two photos). I used neutral density filters to photograph the full eclipse of the sun in May 2012 and the Transit of Venus in June 2012. […]