Transit Parties for June 5

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With clouds and rain expected for the rest of this week, we may miss this transit. Then again, we need only the briefest break at exactly the right hour to see the Black Drop, so one never knows. For something so rare, we’ll be ready, even if it’s looking unlikely. There has been almost no … Read more

Viewing the Transit of Venus Live Online

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Unless it’s cloudy all over the world, it will still be possible to see the transit live, albeit via the Internet. “Sky and Telescope” magazine lists many sites boradcasting the transit. Even if we do get clear skies, we’ll only be able to see beginning of the transit. To see it start to finish, either … Read more

Simulated Transit of Venus

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CMAS member Michael Kosowsky has written a superb eclipse simulator for his Web site, HeyWhatsThat.com. Because a transit shares all the same mechanics with an eclipse, albeit with a tiny planet instead of a big Moon able to block the Sun, we are forever spared the need to be in the right place at the … Read more