[OT][Geek] Transit of Venus

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

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

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

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

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

Bridget wrote:
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


Here in Purrth most of the transit happens before sunset, but I'm
afraid it's cloudy and bucketing down with rain today so we are
unlikely to see much
Helen Wheels

Bridget wrote:
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


Here in Purrth most of the transit happens before sunset, but I'm
afraid it's cloudy and bucketing down with rain today so we are
unlikely to see much
Helen Wheels

Bridget wrote:
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


Here in Purrth most of the transit happens before sunset, but I'm
afraid it's cloudy and bucketing down with rain today so we are
unlikely to see much
Helen Wheels

"Helen Wheels" wrote

Here in Purrth most of the transit happens before sunset, but I'm
afraid it's cloudy and bucketing down with rain today so we are
unlikely to see much
Helen Wheels


Yup, cloudy and looks like rain here in Helsinki, too, so no drop effect of
the Venus kind. (

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"Helen Wheels" wrote

Here in Purrth most of the transit happens before sunset, but I'm
afraid it's cloudy and bucketing down with rain today so we are
unlikely to see much
Helen Wheels


Yup, cloudy and looks like rain here in Helsinki, too, so no drop effect of
the Venus kind. (

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki