Just back in from viewing the transit at Virginia Beach. It had been cloudy for days here and there were low clouds over the ocean and sunrise. It was about 5-10 minutes after sunrise before we even saw the sun. The clouds made a great filter though early on, with a huge orange sun just visible through them and venus visible nake eye. Great sight. Glad I made the trip.
-- Eric Olson ELKK Meteorites http://www.star-bits.com > > Is anyone planning to observe the June 8 Transit of Venus? > > Tracy Latimer > > Hi Tracy and the rest, > > The Sun with Venus are projected on my ceiling at this moment, through my > old 4.5" Newton. And it is a *very* attractive sight, much more attractive > than the Mercury transit last year. Venus is actually quite big! There are > only some minute sunspots currently, so Venus really jumps out. It is also > visible with the naked eye (using a filter of course) as a small spot on the > sun. > > "There's a little black spot on the sun today.... > That's my soul up there......" > > (The Police) > > - Marco > > > ------ > Dr Marco Langbroek > Leiden, the Netherlands > 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > weblog: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/iss_log.html > ------ > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
