Hi all,
I have two Eclipse Shades that I tried to use to view the transit of Venus on
the 6th June 2012 (Australia). I could see the sun but I couldn’t see Venus.
For some reason they didn’t work, was it because the filter are designed for
Eclipses and are not designed to view the transit of
I clearly saw venus with my eclipse shades, but I wore them over my eye
glasses.
On 2012-06-11 16:09, RW Mail List wrote:
Hi all,
I have two Eclipse Shades that I tried to use to view the transit of
Venus on the 6th June 2012 (Australia). I could see the sun but I
couldn’t see Venus. For
Hi Roderick,
I was not able to see Venus with the eclipse shades either, but everyone around
me could. I'm sorry to say I don't think the eclipse shades were the problem,
but our visual acuity probably was.
Glad you had a filtered telescope. So did I. The view was great.
Maureen
On Jun
Maureen, I also tried to observe the TOV with simple glass solar filters
made by Thousand Oaks Optical, which I've used on several solar eclipse
trips. But, also for me, I could not really resolve the Venus disk. I
could just imagine it there where I knew it was, but not really resolve it.
Aloha all,
I hope everyone had a great view of the transit of Venus.
We got lucky here in Hawaii. On June 4 the winds were howling up on Mauna Kea
with gusts up to 60 mph, and it was cold. Somehow we just woke up to this
glorious day. The skies were clear and blue, the winds were calm at the
