Transit of Venus
Moozimoo
08-06-2004, 06:13
In ten minutes the Planet Venus will begin it's six hour journey acroos the sun. If you live in the UK, that is.
Balrogga
08-06-2004, 06:15
Can't see if from here because it is only midnight.
I guess I live at the wrong address...
MILLIONS OF BRITISH BLINDED BY THE SUN!
Details at 11, stay tuned to CNN...
Moozimoo
08-06-2004, 07:00
*mutters* stupid venus
I'm half blind trying "project" an image of that damn thing. Too bright
*grumble*
Monkeypimp
08-06-2004, 07:04
I just saw it on the news. It's too dark here.
Kuro Yume
08-06-2004, 07:05
so... does venus really do a perfect pentegram in the sky?
Bobingrad
08-06-2004, 07:48
umm.. sort of
it takes about 8 years and it's not a perfect pentagram
google "venus pentagram" for more information
like I just did..
why do people ask questions on internet forums they could easily answer themselves using intenet search engines?
by the way thats a rhetorical question, so don't get smug
Can I google it?Can i go to the toilet :D
i didnt see it in aus.. to cloudy :(
Tuesday Heights
08-06-2004, 08:13
I guess I'll have to watch it web-casted then. Damn. :x
Liverpool England
08-06-2004, 08:14
Prime Places to view it were:
-Europe
-Middle East
-Africa
Limited Viewing:
-Americas
-Asia-Pacific
Previously Happened: 1882
Will Next Happen: 2012
Tactical Grace
08-06-2004, 11:48
Seen it by optical projection this morning. Woo! :D
Takes me back to my old days of amateur astronomy.
Saw it looking through a few film negatives. :D
Moontian
08-06-2004, 12:42
Lucky me, being at uni.
We had a telescope with filter set up, the weather was unusually clear and warm for June, and those of us who were there knew at least a bit about everything that was going on.
Adelaide Uni is a good place to be.
New Foxxinnia
08-06-2004, 13:59
Only eight years till the next one. That's good.
Socalist Peoples
08-06-2004, 14:42
Only eight years till the next one. That's good.
and then 120 more...not so good*grumble about planes of the ecliptic*
HC Eredivisie
08-06-2004, 14:54
saw it
Seafog blanketed it completely ... watched webcast instead ... Grr.
AAAAARRRRGH! CLOUDS!
Better luck in 2012.
Tactical Grace
08-06-2004, 15:54
:lol:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40248000/jpg/_40248295_robin_manford.jpg
Petsburg
08-06-2004, 16:09
lol TG :lol:
Imperial Ecclesiarchy
08-06-2004, 18:09
I live near Dallas, Texas, and were should have been able to see it in the morning, but it just so happened that a storm system blew in last night. I had been looking forward to it for months. On top of that ignominy, the news is obsessed with the unfortunate passing of Ronald Reagan, and I only saw coverage of this astronomical event ON SPANISH TELEVISION. Yep.
Good day.
Catholic Europe
09-06-2004, 09:48
I tried to look at it but I couldn't as the sun was too bright. So I got a piece of white paper and I made a hole in some cardboard but that didn't work either, so I gave up and turned the TV on in order to see it on the news.
Huzen Hagen
09-06-2004, 10:26
I set up my telescope in the garden and used it to project an image of the sun onto some paper before an exam but it still killied my eyes
Moozimoo
10-06-2004, 07:43
The next one isnt in 2012, it wont happen for another 120 years.
The brazilian trainee teacher had a welding mask so we all looked throught that - all 1500 pupils.
thats was the most boring astronomical event ever.