On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:
> Do we have any such event in chennai? > Yes, live viewing through telescope at the planetarium or live view through a special solar telescope at Elliot's beach at Besant nagar. More information here in my blog: http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/ > > Can we simulate in stellarium? > Yes you can. - Start Stellarium - Press F5 to show Date/time window (if you want to simulate it now) and change the date to 2012/06/06 and the time to an appropriate value. If you want to see the first point of contact, set the time to 3:41 AM. But you will have to remove the ground (by pressing G) as the sun will be below the horizon for us. - Press Ctrl+F and search for `Venus`. Stellarium will center the display on Venus. - Now, press Ctrl+Up arrow to zoom into the Sun and Venus system. You will be able to see the transit. Regards, Arun http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
