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6th June 2012, 01:13 PM #1
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Transit of Venus
Some photos of the transit of Venus from my front yard setup. Camera quality limits the quality of the image, I can see well defined sunspots too.
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6th June 2012, 01:27 PM #2
What... you mean it's not 1792?
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Triton to the rescue again!
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I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.
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6th June 2012, 01:45 PM #3
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Ooooh, nice. I only had a pinhole, and I thought I saw something but wasn't very good. Was going to use a welding helmet to look at it but it seems my filter isn't dark enough.
The other day I described to my daughter how to find something in the garage by saying "It's right near my big saw". A few minutes later she came back to ask: "Do you mean the black one, the green one, or the blue one?".
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6th June 2012, 02:13 PM #4
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well done
now all we need is the time stamped series from across the day
regards from Alberta, Canada
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6th June 2012, 04:00 PM #5
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No time stamped series but this is the end of it...
You can see the sunspots in some of those photos too.
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6th June 2012, 05:39 PM #6
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Thanks Mic, my wife was disappointed as we only had heavy cloud cover and rain today.
I'm happy to wait for the next one. 2117 I think
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6th June 2012, 05:47 PM #7
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Checked several times today using arc welding helmet.
Couldn't see anything.
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I'll wait till nex time too.
Regards, Keith.
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6th June 2012, 05:48 PM #8
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Kept herself clothed here too.
Cheers,
Jim
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6th June 2012, 05:52 PM #9
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Nice bit of a set up simple and effective.
Makes you wonder how they did it way back when Cook sailed the world to see it. If these icey winter winds are anything to go by they did it hard.
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6th June 2012, 06:28 PM #10
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Certainly had a more stylish instrument, (a Gregorian reflector - not a refractor). They were in the tropics too, and were in Tahiti for several months, and if the old Mutiny on the Bounty movie was anything to go by, there would have been many "pleasurable" encounters with the young natives. Certainly a better experience than the prickly end he met a few years later
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Nice bit of a set up simple and effective.
Makes you wonder how they did it way back when Cook sailed the world to see it. If these icey winter winds are anything to go by they did it hard.
http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/...-telescope.png
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6th June 2012, 06:31 PM #11
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Cloudy here all day. Was going to try 's welding helmet but no sun.
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8th June 2012, 03:58 PM #12
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Well done Mic!!
I don't know about you fellows but I have watched som interesting spectacles in my time:
Nueman's Comet
Halley's comet
The explosion in the Magellanic clouds at the time Halley's comet was around. I happened to be outside stargazing at the right time.
Schumacher- Levy and its breakup.
The first footage of the Erruptions on Jupiter's moons
The alignment of the planets last year
The tansit of Venus this year
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8th June 2012, 05:08 PM #13
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A full moon from the back of a school bus Originally Posted by artme
Well done Mic!!
I don't know about you fellows but I have watched som interesting spectacles in my time:
Nueman's Comet
Halley's comet
The explosion in the Magellanic clouds at the time Halley's comet was around. I happened to be outside stargazing at the right time.
Schumacher- Levy and its breakup.
The first footage of the Erruptions on Jupiter's moons
The alignment of the planets last year
The tansit of Venus this year
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8th June 2012, 09:34 PM #14
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To cloudy where I was for Venus, but the 1/3 part eclipse of the moon by the earth the night before was a good one also
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8th June 2012, 09:54 PM #15
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What's the purple roddy thing doing
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