Venus transit: A last-minute guide

[koalabear]

Thousands of scientists and skywatchers around the world have made detailed plans to monitor today's transit of Venus across the sun, but chances are that word of the last-in-a-lifetime event is just now sinking in for millions of just plain folks — so what's the big deal? And what's the best way to watch the transit?

We've had dozens of stories about Venus' day in the sun over the past few weeks, but for those of you who are just tuning in, here are the top 10 things to keep in mind about today's transit, whether your skies are sunny or completely socked in:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12056397-venus-transit-a-last-minute-guide

 

[Disgustipated]

Koaladipshit provides a great service for those of us without the interwebs!

 

[chillywilly2]

Koaladipshit provides a great service for those of us without the interwebs!

How do you figure that...people without interwebs don't get Lit

 

[trysail]

The next transit of Venus won't occur until 2117.

 

[busybody..]

yawn!


lemme know when we can go to URANUS

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egakOKsSzhg

 

[hobbit.]

The best way to observe this is to watch through binoculars or a telescope.

 

[SugarBunny2012]

Welders glass FTW!

 

[trysail]

All mariners and navigators will forever and always associate the Transit of Venus with the 1768-1771 First Voyage of Captain Cook to observe the 3 June, 1769 event at Tahiti.

 

[warrior queen]

One of the best places to see it is only a short distance from here at a place called Campbelltown. The observatory is setting up big screens so people can watch what's being seen from the telescope.
Surprisingly, it's dawn right now (I'm up feeding poddy lambs), and the sky is crystal clear for the first time in days.
I might take a drive and go see for myself.

 

[SugarBunny2012]

yawn!


lemme know when we can go to URANUS

Well played.

 

[trysail]

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/tran/TOV2012-Fig01.png


http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html
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[koalabear]

Live
Watch "Transit of Venus," rare passage of Venus between Earth and the sun


http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1n&tag=watchnow

 

[JohnnySavage]

o0oO00oo0ooO... a little dot going across the background of the sun. Fascinating

 

[koalabear]

o0oO00oo0ooO... a little dot going across the background of the sun. Fascinating

Probably not for you. So go help lil fag chihuahua search for Ken.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Probably not for you. So go help lil fag chihuahua search for Ken.

How very bigoted of you.

 

[koalabear]

How very bigoted of you.

and take pereg with you.

 

[warrior queen]

Live
Watch "Transit of Venus," rare passage of Venus between Earth and the sun


http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1n&tag=watchnow

It's actually rather cool to watch something that's not going to happen again till long after I'm dead.
And interesting that, had it not been for the transit, Australia could well be speaking Dutch!

 

[Peregrinator]

and take pereg with you.

You talk about me a lot.

 

[koalabear]

You talk about me a lot.

You have so many sides to you.

 

[trysail]

That's one helluva an image:

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/transit_venus_sdo_capture2.jpg

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