[OT][Geek] Transit of Venus

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:

Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity?

Joyce



What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or
you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark
circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning,
it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis
reporting from the Greenwich Observatory.

Also see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml

Cheers, helen s


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Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:

Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity?

Joyce



What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or
you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark
circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning,
it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis
reporting from the Greenwich Observatory.

Also see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml

Cheers, helen s


--This is an invalid email address to avoid spam--
to get correct one remove fame & fortune
**$om $

--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off--


Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:

Speaking of seeing one, what does it look like? Is there anything
interesting about it, other than its rarity?

Joyce



What you see - and you should *never* but *never* look directly at the sun or
you *will* blind yourself, painfully and possibly permanently, is a small dark
circle traversing the face of the sun. For those in the UK, tomorrow morning,
it's being shown on BBC during the Breakfast programme with Adam Hart-Davis
reporting from the Greenwich Observatory.

Also see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/m...tofvenus.shtml

Cheers, helen s


--This is an invalid email address to avoid spam--
to get correct one remove fame & fortune
**$om $

--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off--


Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

At least you can see it on the web :-)

Cheers, helen s


--This is an invalid email address to avoid spam--
to get correct one remove fame & fortune
**$om $

--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off--

Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

At least you can see it on the web :-)

Cheers, helen s


--This is an invalid email address to avoid spam--
to get correct one remove fame & fortune
**$om $

--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off--

Usses here in the US can't see it, so no point in looking at the sun and
blinding yourself for no reason. This isn't an event for this side of
the pond. I mean to complain to those in charge about this.

Bridget

At least you can see it on the web :-)

Cheers, helen s


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to get correct one remove fame & fortune
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--Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off--

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Back to lurkhood.
Paulette

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Paulette

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Paulette

That's not true Bridget. Here in the northeast, the sunrise is 5:08 and
the transit ends at 7:25. If the sky is clear, I plan to look (through
4 layers of exposed xray film) about 6 AM.


-MIKE