en español   HOME   about us   acknowledgements   www.capat.org   Sunday 8 September 2013 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina (S -42.78 W -65.00) Venus de Madryn 2 (more photos)! Near-central Occultation of Venus by the Moon in Patagonia More of surely a once in a lifetime experience - taking photographs, without a telescope, of an almost central occulatation of Venus beginning 30 minutes before the sun sets, in full daylight, and ending in darkness over an hour later! (see also Venus de Madryn 1.)   130908t2012 130908t2121 130908t2208 130908t2219 130908t2220 130908t2221 Click images to enlarge. All the photographs are as taken, simply cropped and resized for the internet. For these photographs a simple compact camera with 5x zoom was used. The building lit in blue is the Rayentray Hotel. María Victoria Canullo, Robin Linhope Willson eds.    © 1998-2013 Sponsored by the Magic Penny Trust.