Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)http://www.xyzasia.com/picture/Shanghai0406116eo.jpg?pictureId=34996<P>This is the transit of the sun by the planet Venus on 8 June 2004. This was the first time anyone alive had seen&nbsp;Venus transit the sun as the last time was in 1882. I took this using a 200 mm lens on my Nikon D100 through a glass window of a hotel in Shanghai, China, resting the lens on the back of a couch as I didn't have my tripod with me.&nbsp; Exposure was 1/400th sec, aperature f5.6. I was&nbsp;extremely lucky to see&nbsp;the transit&nbsp;as the air had been very&nbsp;heavily polluted for a few days, and&nbsp;it had been&nbsp;impossible to see the sun.&nbsp; However, an afternoon shower of rain cleared the air enough for the sun to be seen through a dirty haze (which actually helped a lot to see the transit with the naked eye).&nbsp; Five minutes after I took this photo, the sky clouded over and the sun disappeared for the day. This picture was taken about&nbsp;an a hour and a half into the six-hour&nbsp;transit (Venus&nbsp;was moving from left to right).</P>