Historiv transit of Venus, June 8, 2004. Only very rarely the planet Venus can be seen when it passes between the Sun and the Earth. This image was obtained during the transit of 2004 and shows a close-up of the dark Venus and a snmall part of the Sun. A Celestron NexStar 11 telescope and a Canon Powershot G3 digital camera was used to catch this scene. Photo: Anders Johannesson and Ingemar Larsson