This page shows you chased images of the Venus transit on Jun6, 2012 with an H-alpha solar telescope.
You can switch displayed image with different taken time by clicking on buttons above the image.
These images show us a blacked circular Venus is moving on solar chromosphere.
The sun in that day had several large-scaled plages with NOAA numbers of #1493, #1498, #1499 and so on in northern hemisphere, the Venus passed just north of the active regions.
You can also detect several prominences around solar rim.
Moreover, the sun rotated about 3.5 degrees during 6.5 hours of transit, the movement of solar surface can be detected.
Also some small-scaled flares occurred, you can see some parts of plages brightened.
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