June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
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Overcast here, this morning. Which actually is good, as I didn't wake up about 4:30, as I usually do.
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You're welcome, TA. 
I hope I'll get better at that sort of thing before Venus comes around next time...in 105 years... 
I hope I'll get better at that sort of thing before Venus comes around next time...in 105 years... "A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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I'm counting on cryogenics.FBM wrote:You're welcome, TA.
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My shaky video of the 2nd contact projected on paper =)
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That wasn't very shaky at all, normal. It looked really good! How did you make the projector thingy?
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I didn't make it. It was a telescope with an angled mirror. Some Finnish hobby astronomer had set it up, so I just used the opportunity to try and capture it on videoFBM wrote:That wasn't very shaky at all, normal. It looked really good! How did you make the projector thingy?
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Sweet!
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Damned English weather! 
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Grey and pissing all day, like an English summer, so not a chance of visibility. Thankfully I saw it eight years ago via pinhole camera, so I won't feel compelled to hang around for the next shot.
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I got something like that a while back...Gawdzilla wrote:
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YiGl2p3 ... el&list=UL[/youtube]
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bteaH54n ... ture=g-upl[/youtube]
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Tremendous. Thanks FBM. Nice pix btw.FBM wrote:Audley Strange wrote:They were warbling on about this on the news earlier. Why is this a deal? Just because it's rare or is there some scignificance to it?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 171010.htm
Transits of Venus are very rare, separated by more than a hundred years. There have been 53 transits since 2000 B.C., but only six have been witnessed since the invention of the telescope in 1608. These rare events occur in pairs, with the first transit occurring June 8, 2004. The next opportunity won't be until Dec. 10 and 11, 2117.
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