The five images on this page show the beginning of the transit of Venus across the Sun, as seen from space by the Japanese satellite Hinode. Images were captured with the SOT instrument during five minutes, between 22:26 and 22:31 UTC on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. SOT (Solar Optical Telescope) is a 0.5 meter Gregorian optical telescope with an angular resolution of about 0.2 arcsec over the field of view of about 400 × 400 arc seconds.
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| Credit: JAXA/ISAS |
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| Credit: JAXA/ISAS |
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The images were obtained directly from the FITS files, available at the Hinode SDC Europe Archive.
