I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: MooseMom on June 05, 2012, 03:42:37 PM
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For the last time in our lifetime (unless you live until 2117), Venus is travelling across the face of the Sun within view of us here on Earth. It is so cool; I'm watching in online in real time on two different sites. If you are interested,
http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/
On the above site, they've set the transit to music!
Also,
http://events.slooh.com/
On this site, toward the top of the page, you can move to different telescopes mounted in different sites. Don't bother looking at sites in Asia and the Pacific because they have yet to have sunrise; in these areas, you can view the transit later on in US time if you are still awake. For now, go to the telescopes at U of NM and in Norway. I'm not sure when the feeds from Asia and Australia will come online.
The transit lasts for about another 6 hours. Enjoy!
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I've been checking it all morning courtesy a piece of paper and a pin hole. Mind boggling!
It's starting to cloud over now though. Bummer
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Both websites are excellent! Thanks for the tip, MooseMom!
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The first thing that came to mind was, Can we send that NJ mother who is overly tanned there so she can really fry herself silly?
Now I have to look at the other link.
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I watched it on the way to drop off my labs at FedEx, wearing one of Andy's welding shields. Got a lot of strange looks but it was awesome! I'm so glad I got to see it with my own eyes.
(I asked Andy if he ever looks at the sun just because he can. He does.)