A battery of SCTs in readiness for observing the 2004 transit of Venus on the observing deck of the College of Charleston Observatory, Charleston SC. Image courtesy of Dave Gallant (©Dave Gallant)

Image by Dave Gallant, by the simplest of methods - holding a simple point-and-shoot 3.1 megapixel to a telescope eyepiece. It works! Image courtesy of Dave Gallant (©Dave Gallant)

Dave Gallant took this dramatic image while observing the 2004 transit of Venus at the College of Charleston Observatory, in historic Charleston SC. Image courtesy of Dave Gallant (©Dave Gallant)

Image courtesy of Dave Gallant (©Dave Gallant).