My lovely wife is snapping photos already, as it has just started. Here’s a sample.
Canon 1D, ND400 filter, Hoya G filter, telephoto lens.
Via the WUWT Solar Page, here’s the image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
closeup:
My lovely wife is snapping photos already, as it has just started. Here’s a sample.
Canon 1D, ND400 filter, Hoya G filter, telephoto lens.
Via the WUWT Solar Page, here’s the image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
closeup:
Thanks.
Not much chance of viewing up here in Washington.
Well done Mrs. Watts
Wonderful picture.
The Venus transit can be viewed ‘live’ at microwave frequencies (17GH) on imagery from the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph in Japan:
http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norh/html/10min/2012/06/06/movie.html
Here’s a picture of the heliograph, an array of 84 parabolic dish antennas (80 cm diameter) covering an area of about 10 football fields:
http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norh/html/gallery/norh.png
Just got in from showing it to my 2 teenage sons. We stacked up welding lenses until you couldn’t see the sun and then removed them until we could start to see it! We’re in Chicago.
Can’t wait for the total eclipse in 2017!!!
It nearly makes me cry, its so beautiful. It gives a kind of family feeling – these brave little planets circling this giant mama. This is the first time I’ve given any thought to the scale.
Cool! And take a look at the photos over at http://spaceweather.com/
I got home just as clouds were clearing (had I known they would I would have left earlier). However, my wife and I had time to dash over to a field by the town offices and set up the scope. The view was neat as the Sun began to set behind some pine trees. No photos, I can fit an Olympus OM-1 to the scope, but Olympus never made a digital back for it….
Watch it live at http://venustransit.nasa.gov/transitofvenus/
Amazing pix, thank your wife from all of us. Gives you some sense of scale, doesn’t it?
A bit of Boston “Sunshine” up here in the NE. Ah well. Glad you got some clear enough weather.
There’s a live feed from numerous observatories (plus ongoing commentary) at SLOOH (http://events.slooh.com/). (h/t Instapundit and Popularmechanics,com)
See Venus on this cool orrerry.
[You can also set the date, set a Tychonean view, etc.]
There is a LiveStream of the Venus transit as seen by SDO at http://www.tinyurl.com/aiavenus .
It’s well under way here. There are several websites showing it.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/itelescope
http://www.transitofvenus.com.au
http://www.abc.net.au/science/transitofvenus/
use the live stream from University of Queensland. Good clear day here in Brisbane.
The schoolkids are all using pinhole cameras in the school grounds.
(We did that for an eclipse of the sun when I was in primary school. The Sun had only just been invented in those far-off days.)
There was supposed to be a stream from Alice, but Telstra stuffed it up. They damaged the cable.
The show seems pretty popular, and yet they say they won’t do another for a hundred years or so. This seems just silly to me. Why not do “Transit II – The Return of Venus” in a year or so? Make a bit of money from the franchise before people forget.
The transit of Venus is very important to us here in Aus. The official reason for Cook’s first voyage down here was to observe the transit. Once that was done, he opened his secret orders which said “Poke around down there. If you find anything, grab it before the blasted Froggies get there.”
He did, and ended up on the East coast of Australia and claimed it. He landed near Botany Bay, which was convenient because it was just a bus ride to the center of Sydney,
He also charted and claimed NZ, but no-one cares about that.
And, of course, I’m playing Holst.
Wonderful, and a good reminder as to why that ginormous burning ball has nothing to do with climate change.
Went outside with my binoculars and a piece of white paper. It took me only a few seconds to project an image of the sun onto the paper. My wife saw it right away, “Hey, is that little spot Venus?” Pretty cool.
It’s lower on the surface from my house in Colorado. I can almost feel it cancelling out the warming from CO2.
I turned a pair of Binoculars into a projector onto some A3 paper as a screen to show my work mates at morning tea. It worked well.
These images remind us of just how insignificant we are in the universe.
The scientific and human back story of major expeditions to measure it. A Sousa to commemorate it and who knows what else. This is fascinating and if your interested in the history of science a great read.
There was a spot on my binocs too-rain..
grrr..
RoHa says:
June 5, 2012 at 5:12 pm
He also charted and claimed NZ, but no-one cares about that.
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and a Haka gets done just for you…
Realizing that Venus is only slightly smaller than the Earth, and seeing it against our
mightyvery ordinary and uninteresting star, it makes you feel like an Adele song; kind of passionate but not important.@Luther Wu
“and a Haka gets done just for you…”
Well, what do the Kiwis expect? NZ is one of those countries which only exists so that the neighbour can make fun of it, just like Norway, Canada, Belgium, and Wales.
Alack been low cloud here all day and will be tomorrow. So I shall have to view at secondhand as it were.
Kindest Regards