A 32 image GIF movie of the planet's movement in front of the solar disk during 5 hours, highly compressed. File size 556 KB, may take some time to load. Be sure to activate animated images with your browser. See also the Narrow-Field Version of the same animation.

Venus is the round black disk near the bottom which moves across the solar disk. The dark spots near the center are sunspots, at the lower right a solar flare region can be seen. North is up and west is to the right.