Transit of Venus: epic fail!

Last Saturday (6th June), the transit of Venus took place. What is the transit of Venus, you ask? For those of you who are too lazy to Google, here, I've taken a little excerpt from Wikipedia for your reading pleasure:

"A transit of Venus takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth (or another planet), becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. (...) Transits of Venus are amongst the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that generally repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. (...) The last transit of Venus was on 5 and 6 June 2012, and was the last Venus transit of the 21st century; the prior transit took place on 8 June 2004. (...) The next transits of Venus will be December 10-11, 2117, and in December 2125." (adapted from this Wikipedia article)

So there you have it. Apparently a very historical moment for all of us. And I tried to capture the event with my camera. Which of course, resulted in an epic fail, as I am not in possession of special lenses for capturing once-in-a-lifetime events up high in the sky. Here are the 'epic fail' pictures of the transit of Venus:

Just a globe of out-of-focus light in the sky, you say? Precisely. Epic Fail.

On the bright side (pun intended), there are plenty of lovely images (successful ones at that) available on the world wide web, for your leisurely viewing pleasure. But what's the fun in that?

Cheers people, and here's to more epic fails!