George Musser But go out there anyway… you just need the clouds for part for afew seconds. DaAmazingUmAh hmmm if its 21h02 here I’m pretty sure I’ve missed the show you areall going to see 😦 George Musser @da’ah where are you? Robin lloyd So George, what are your viewing plans for this evening? George Musser @robin I’ll go to Riker Hill in Livingston, NJ, which has anexcellent view of the western horizon. The local amateurastronomers will be there in force. DaAmazingUmAh South Africa , it be really darkest africa , right now 🙂 Mary Starr We will be watching through a telescope with a filte
Here in NovaScotia, it’s hard to tell if there even *is* a sun 😉 George Musser it’s very easy to take a piece of cardboard or foil and make apinhole Ana Sofia Alvarez Thanks! So glad I’ll get to see this. Lifetime event. Nathan Henderson Looking forward to it….even though I don’t have the ‘high tech’imaging equipment that the professionals use….projection all theway!! George Musser @alan alas George Musser @nathan that’s the way to go…. it’s not like, saying, Mars or the rings of Saturn, where better equipment = minfy133 Why is the Transit of Venus so rare? Shouldn’t it be less rare tha
also, it’s an example of atechnique to search for extrasolar planets RPGlennJohnson i live introducing people to astronomy via celestial events likethis George Musser @rpglennjohnson it’s amazing how this draws people in, isn’t it? RPGlennJohnson @george….yes it is Katrina Gill I don’t know the how or the why of this event, but the Majesty ofit, is what amazes me, I’m always looking at the sky jmtsn George, how do you rank a Venus transit compared to a solar eclipseor a lunar eclipse? George Musser @jmtsn well, it’s not as dramatic as an eclipse, but I think theobscurity is part of the fun G
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