I managed to capture the beginning of the 2012 Venus transit from my backyard. The video gets pretty interesting around six minutes.

I used a Celestron Nexstar 8SE with the NexImage CCD camera. The video was captured with AMCap and is not tampered with except for the last two minutes of the video, where the sun  was made more orange/yellow and the video was sped up.

Here’s what my setup looked like (without the CCD camera)

And here’s a mostly pointless photo taken looking through the solar filter :)