Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Transit of Venus


After all the rotten weather we have a clear morning for the transit of Venus across the sun today. I was keen to see it as the next transit is over 100 years away and my eyesight might not be good enough then. I set up the little telescope to project the image of the sun onto the ground.

And this is the image.

Not bad for such an ad hoc arrangement. This is our link to Captain Cook and european settlement of Australia.

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