Venus Transit on June 5, 2012

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Mon, 2011-10-10 10:14
marvinthemartian
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Viewable Venus Transition

I read in my new Farmer's Almanac that Venus will pass in front of the sun and it will be visable in North America. And you can see it without the aid of a telescope.
It appears to happen close to sundown in the Eastern half of North America. To get a good idea when it start and finishes in your area I found a web site that will show the path also.
-> http://www.transitofvenus.nl/details.html

Of course you can use the "Eclipse Shade" that you ordered from this web site to view the event. What you haven't ordered them for the last eclipse!?!?!?

Maybe Relative Data, Inc. will issue a special edition for the "Venus Transit 2012". It will not happen again until 2017. To order regular eclipse shade, here is the link -> http://www.relativedata.com/eclipse-shades

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Mon, 2011-10-10 11:13
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dpatte
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I think I should stock up!

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Fri, 2012-05-18 11:49
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marvinthemartian
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Is everyone ready for the Venus Transition on June 5th?

I got my Eclipse Shades to look at it. Do you have yours?

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Fri, 2012-05-18 12:32
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The website in the Netherlands is great showing the transit times and sunrise/sunset times for your own location! And I am running out of eclipse shades - only a few dozen left at 'Our Store' in the left menu.

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Tue, 2012-06-05 17:06
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If you don't have eclipse shades - don;t even try to look at the sun!

Instead, take a piece of paper, and push a small pin-hole through it, then hold the paper a few feat above the ground. The image of the sun will appear on the ground, from the light going through the hole.

The smaller the hole, the more clear the image will be.

The website in the Netherlands has crashed it seems.

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Tue, 2012-06-05 20:37
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The transit was awesome through the eclipse shades. It is not advisable to look through binoculars and eclipse shades. You can see sun spots but it really mess up your eyes for a long time.

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Wed, 2012-06-06 07:22
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no - i wouldnt use binoculars. They might melt the eclipse shades.

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Wed, 2012-06-06 16:22
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marvinthemartian
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I did see the transit. It was getting cloudy. I told my wife if it is cloudy that I would be traveling to an area were it was not cloudy. It was only a 30 minute journey luckily. I didn't want to end up in Kansas 8 hours away.

I took my son and he gave me eye witness account as I was driving. The interesting that Venus was at the upper right of the Sun and was moving down. When I thought that the Venus is coming from the left side of the Sun and go to the right side of the Sun. This confused me, until I realized something. I was observing the transit in the evening. That means when I am looking at the Sun it is on it's side. :)

If it was noon then Venus would move from the left to the right.
If it was the morning then Venus would move from the bottom to the top. :)
If you looked at if all day, it would be moving up in the morning, then moving to the right at noon, then moving down in the evening, so it would look like a large loop.

That would be cool. If you had an equalaterial mount with a video camera it would look like it was moving left to right.

Justi interesting point of views. :)

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