June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Thanks. I've got a few more short vids, but they're pretty much SSDD as the ones above. Just that Venus is somewhere between.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Not my image, and it's the 2004 transit. Sydney Harbour Bridge got a bit in the way.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
and the winner is ........
Incredible out of the Japanese Hinode telescope.
Incredible out of the Japanese Hinode telescope.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
That is AWESOME!!
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Yeah - my sentiments exactly - it really gives a feel of the size of the sun as Venus is near earth scale and much closer to us - sense of 3D from the image is stunning including the atmosphere ring in yellow on the left.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
OMFG that's a fucking incredible fucking image... 
"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
macdoc wrote:Yeah - my sentiments exactly - it really gives a feel of the size of the sun as Venus is near earth scale and much closer to us - sense of 3D from the image is stunning including the atmosphere ring in yellow on the left.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. ~Christopher Hitchens~
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3534/379 ... 3be9_o.jpg[/imgc]
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
That guy should have raised his hand so that he was 'holding' Venus.Faithfree wrote:
Not my image, and it's the 2004 transit. Sydney Harbour Bridge got a bit in the way.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
That is a bloody good shot!macdoc wrote:and the winner is ........
Incredible out of the Japanese Hinode telescope.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
Sir Figg Newton wrote:If I have seen further than others, it is only because I am surrounded by midgets.
IDMD2Cormac wrote:Doom predictors have been with humans right through our history. They are like the proverbial stopped clock - right twice a day, but not due to the efficacy of their prescience.
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Re: June 5/6 2012 Last transit of Venus in your lifetime
"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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