Amateur and professional photography around the world captures once in 120 year event

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The Transit of Venus is a once in a lifetime event captured by these photographers.

M watching transit by Dave Lytle (creative Commons)

Gracious thank you to all the photographers who allow their work to be published under Creative Commons, with some rights reserved.

For more information on the Transit of Venus, see Transit of Venus – Venus Passes In Front of Sun on June 5 2012

The Goddard photographs are in a separate gallery. Hi-Def Transit of Venus Photo Gallery and Video

For more photographs, click through to Flickr.