On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:41:05 +1000 Tim Wheeler wrote:

>We saw the small dot of Venus travel part way across the sun, from the
>bottom up, before sunset. I thought that the image was upright, but the pics
>in the newspaper showed Venus moving from the top down.

You can't believe what you see in the papers! I used my old eclipse
glasses from '99 & saw the van of love travel from 6 o'clock to 5
o'clock. You were right.

The inversion when you move the paper away is just normal optics at work.

And, just to stay on topic, did anyone get a digital shot? How was the
chromatic aberration?

David Hoffman 

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