Transit of Venus - Live

[pokerfan]

Last edited Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:26 PM - Edit history (2)

Join Fraser Cain, Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer), Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci (The Noisy Astronomer), Scott Lewis, and the whole Virtual Star Party Team at CosmoQuest for live cover of the Venus Transit.

New link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/universetoday?v=AcC5iqNypj4

[WCGreen]

1. I love Nicole....

This is so cool cause I am in the hospital and I wanted to see this...

[babsbunny]

2. hope you are ok

[pokerfan]

3. Getting closer

The view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Awesome photo! Thanks! n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. We just went outside to look at it...

Without magnification, it is nearly impossible to see anything...

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. It gets easier as the planet moves away from the limb of the sun.

I couldn't see anything at first, either. But now I can.

The best view will be at about 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time.

[laconicsax]

10. You can see it if you look at it just right...sort of...

Using my handy eclipse viewing glasses, I've been looking every half-hour or so and I'm pretty sure I've seen a little dark speck in slightly different places moving left to right near the top of the sun. I can't see it consistently, but I'm pretty sure I've seen something.

On edit: I just looked at a transit simulator and while the last dark speck I saw was undoubtedly Venus, whatever I thought I saw earlier almost certainly wasn't.

[pokerfan]

7. Everyone's a comedian

Venus Transit:

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. Good one.