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Viewing great; timing difficult 18 Jun 2012 | 12:41 pm
I’ve never surfed a big ocean wave before, but I imagine it’s something like the transit of Venus. You prepare, you see it coming, you paddle franticly to catch the right spot. Then, for a fleeting mo...
How did your observations go? 13 Jun 2012 | 12:57 pm
How did your observations of the 2012 transit of Venus go? Whatever disastrous things may have happened during your observations, they are most probably dwarfed by what Le Gentil had to go through bet...
Among coyotes and rattlesnakes 13 Jun 2012 | 02:42 am
“I observed the transit from southern Saskatchewan, and lived to tell the tale!” – would look good on a t-shirt, but it does describe my ToV experience. (As the last of Steven’s blogging team to repo...
The transit in HD 11 Jun 2012 | 11:49 pm
The following images of the transit are taken by the NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The transit at Siding Spring 8 Jun 2012 | 11:41 am
Wonderful views of the transit were seen from Siding Spring Observatory, the home of Australia’s largest telescopes, near the town of Coonabarabran in NSW. A parfocal image of the transit through a 7...
A spectacle on Mount Wilson 8 Jun 2012 | 01:43 am
We had perfect success from on top of Mt Wilson in southern California. My wife and I attended a gathering of the Antique Telescope Society, I gave a presentation on old and new transit maps, we rece...
Fabulous Transit from Hawaii 7 Jun 2012 | 07:33 am
Well, it’s come and gone for another 105.5 years. And we couldn’t have asked for the day to have worked out any better. Well, we could have, but that we’d have had to be daft! I’ve just seen 1st and ...
Transit at Kitt Peak, AZ 6 Jun 2012 | 10:29 pm
Just a quick transit report from the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Wow, what a day it was. I had come from Washington DC to Tucson on the day before – so we only had to drive from Tucson...
Vardø: overcast but fun 6 Jun 2012 | 04:49 pm
In the days preceding the transit, weather forecasts were giving different predictions for Vardø, Norway: one said it would be partly clouded, another predicted an overcast sky and yet another added s...
The Twilight Experiment 5 Jun 2012 | 07:24 am
The aureole of Venus, showing up during the egress in 2004, as imaged by a coronagraph built by A. and S. Rondi Three extra-large suitcases in a high speed train from Nice to Paris, France, have attr...
