NSR: Venus Transit pic

[el-bagr]

For those who missed the Venus transit, check out this link:
http://www.howell-ltd.com/Astronomy/html/VenusTransit.html

Curiously enough, this link was sent to me by my uncle, an astro prof at BU... who says it was taken by one of his graduate students from coastal Maine. This is the same site Justin linked us to for his uncle's astro site.

Justin, who's your uncle? Sounds like my uncle (Harlan Spence) knows him!

[Justin]

For those who missed the Venus transit, check out this link:
http://www.howell-ltd.com/Astronomy/html/VenusTransit.html

Curiously enough, this link was sent to me by my uncle, an astro prof at BU... who says it was taken by one of his graduate students from coastal Maine. This is the same site Justin linked us to for his uncle's astro site.

Justin, who's your uncle? Sounds like my uncle (Harlan Spence) knows him!

whoa wierd!
i was going to post that identical link! That's my uncles web page (Paul Howell). Notice the 'howell-ltd' in the web address that's the Photography Company i work for. Paul's also a grad student @ BU do i'm suree they know each other. too wierd.

Do you think we triggered a astronomical apocalypse?:p :doh:

Small world... ~or state at least~

[M@]

That's a lot better then the view I had! My house has bad western horizen viewing so I had to drive down the road a bit. Used my little telescope and a piece of paper and got the sun projected to about 2 inches diameter and sure enough, there was a little black dot on it.

I called my brother in law to tell him, and he said he was already looking at it, AND HADN'T GOT OUT OF BED YET. He's got perfect western viewing and had the binocs on his nightstand in anticipation.

BTW: The Phish Coventry show, that friday is the persieds peak. SHould be pretty fun.

M@

[M@]

Here's the picture from my little telescope:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0406/sst_venus_atmosphere_1759c1.jpg
Ha ha ha...yeah right. I wish. I did a little drawing on the piece of paper I was projecting the image onto... not quite as impressive as the above:
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/7transit.JPG

More info on the kewl pix and some movies here:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040610.html

M@

[RR]

Wow, that's awesome!

[BladeGirl]

Great link, el-bagr!
And for those who missed the 1882 transit, here is the world's oldest "movie"
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/graphics/Transit1882Todd640.mov
-BG

[RR]

BG that's just fantabulous!

[Tommy T]

I was in Paris with two granddaughters (10 year old identical twins) and had good weather for the entire event from first contact to last. We checked it every hour to watch the progress, using binocs with filters and the projection technique. Projection gave us a larger image and let us all see and comment on it at once but there is nothing like the idea of the actual photons hitting your retina to bring the event home.

Tommy T.