- Visitors & Friends - About the University Venus through the
clouds Pete Wilton | 06 Jun 12 Venus is visible as the dark spot
at the extreme right on the face of the Sun. Andrew, from Oxford
University's Department of Physics, told me: ‘The shots were
taken with a normal digital SLR and a fairly long lens (70–200
mm plus a 1.7x teleconverter), but nothing more complex than
that. You should of course never look at the Sun with the naked
eye, especially through a camera or telescope, but on this
occasion the thick clouds had a silver lining and protected me -
and, as a bonus, made the shot a lot more atmospheric too!’