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This entry was posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:55 am and is filed under The Universe and Stuff with tags astronomy, Once in a lifetime opportunity, Transit of Venus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
In the Dark
June 6, 2012 at 7:59 am
Should we assume it was similarly clear during the transit as well? ;)
Here’s how I saw (sort of) saw it.
June 6, 2012 at 8:51 am
I tried to do before, during and after but the wordpress software kept messing up the centre image. Anyway, during was much the same.
June 6, 2012 at 8:30 am
Same weather here in Japan T_T
June 6, 2012 at 9:31 am
Exciting! The clouds did not move during the whole event ;)
June 6, 2012 at 9:33 am
I have to admit that those pictures are much more exciting than any I took: my images show only featureless clouds and mist.
June 6, 2012 at 10:54 am
Haha very funny ! Are these also an “artist’s impression”, I wonder ?
June 6, 2012 at 11:34 am
Actually, I have a picture of that somewhere. I’ll try to find it. It was a rather marvellous moment when the clouds parted..
June 6, 2012 at 3:48 pm
We had about 50-60 people show up to see the transit at my university. The publicity had been minimal at best, so I was astonished that anyone showed up. There were thick clouds in front of the Sun about 90% of the time, but every once in a while there’d be enough of a break to see it.
I know that the transit isn’t a terribly important event scientifically (anymore), and honestly it’s not all that dramatic or beautiful, but people were quite excited to see it, and anything that gives the public warm fuzzy feelings about astronomy is good in my book.
June 6, 2012 at 7:46 pm
That reminds me of my experience of the 2004 transit. I set up a small wide-field refractor with a solar filter on a camera tripod in a square in the university and allowed people to look through. At one point there was a long queue about 60 people long waiting to look through the eyepiece.
June 6, 2012 at 10:11 pm
I had more luck with the weather from Copenhagen! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151159349004056.533301.585024055&type=1&l=2d71613ad3
June 8, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Actually, here’s the best Transit of Venus picture I’ve seen:
June 10, 2012 at 3:29 pm
Now you’re being silly! This picture is really nice: blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/06/how-could-i-not-post-this-venus-transit-picture/
June 10, 2012 at 3:31 pm
URL not working, now with http: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/06/how-could-i-not-post-this-venus-transit-picture/