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Today is a great day! -(well when I started to write this entry it was actually the 6th of June, 2012)- ...anyway, I was privileged to be witnessing with my own eyes, an event in the cosmos that is very rare indeed. An event known as; The 'Transit-Of-Venus' across the Sun. In fact - I was with my 2 youngest sons-[mini-minigoat; & mini-mini-minigoat], so we got our telescope out of the house - and into the backyard. We set it up and were instantly rewarded with a truly awesome sight...
Well we didn't look at the Sun directly - that would be bad, right! What we did was, we set up the 'sun-viewer-attachment' which let us view the sun safely - reflected onto a viewing-plate...and it was awesome! The planet Venus was about the size of a match-head, located in the bottom-one-third of the Sun's face - but also alongside Venus were 5 or 6 Sunspots, each about the size of a small-pinhead. It was so cool watching history in the making. This phenomenon won't be visiting the eyes of earthlings for another 105-years!
This is a short video I took of the event, for posterity - with my 2Mega-pixel phone-camera; ...apologies for the quality, but you get the gist of it; minus most of the details unfortunately, there is a glimpse of Venus at about the 2m:20s-mark; and again at the 8m:30s-mark!...We also have a cat called 'Patch'-(though his screen name is 'Woodpuddle-Cat', but he makes an entrance for the camera too!...and manages to take my attention off the subject.
Today is a great day! -(well when I started to write this entry it was actually the 6th of June, 2012)- ...anyway, I was privileged to be witnessing with my own eyes, an event in the cosmos that is very rare indeed. An event known as; The 'Transit-Of-Venus' across the Sun. In fact - I was with my 2 youngest sons-[mini-minigoat; & mini-mini-minigoat], so we got our telescope out of the house - and into the backyard. We set it up and were instantly rewarded with a truly awesome sight...
Well we didn't look at the Sun directly - that would be bad, right! What we did was, we set up the 'sun-viewer-attachment' which let us view the sun safely - reflected onto a viewing-plate...and it was awesome! The planet Venus was about the size of a match-head, located in the bottom-one-third of the Sun's face - but also alongside Venus were 5 or 6 Sunspots, each about the size of a small-pinhead. It was so cool watching history in the making. This phenomenon won't be visiting the eyes of earthlings for another 105-years!
This is a short video I took of the event, for posterity - with my 2Mega-pixel phone-camera; ...apologies for the quality, but you get the gist of it; minus most of the details unfortunately, there is a glimpse of Venus at about the 2m:20s-mark; and again at the 8m:30s-mark!...We also have a cat called 'Patch'-(though his screen name is 'Woodpuddle-Cat', but he makes an entrance for the camera too!...and manages to take my attention off the subject.
