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  1. 6th June 2012, 01:13 PM #1
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    Some photos of the transit of Venus from my front yard setup. Camera quality limits the quality of the image, I can see well defined sunspots too.
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    Triton to the rescue again!
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    I know you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you just read is not what I meant.

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    Ooooh, nice. I only had a pinhole, and I thought I saw something but wasn't very good. Was going to use a welding helmet to look at it but it seems my filter isn't dark enough.
    The other day I described to my daughter how to find something in the garage by saying "It's right near my big saw". A few minutes later she came back to ask: "Do you mean the black one, the green one, or the blue one?".
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    well done
    now all we need is the time stamped series from across the day
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    No time stamped series but this is the end of it...

    You can see the sunspots in some of those photos too.
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    Thanks Mic, my wife was disappointed as we only had heavy cloud cover and rain today.
    I'm happy to wait for the next one. 2117 I think
    Those were the droids I was looking for.
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    Checked several times today using arc welding helmet.
    Couldn't see anything. .
    I'll wait till nex time too.
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    Kept herself clothed here too.
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    Nice bit of a set up simple and effective.

    Makes you wonder how they did it way back when Cook sailed the world to see it. If these icey winter winds are anything to go by they did it hard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wheelinround View Post
    Nice bit of a set up simple and effective.

    Makes you wonder how they did it way back when Cook sailed the world to see it. If these icey winter winds are anything to go by they did it hard.
    Certainly had a more stylish instrument, (a Gregorian reflector - not a refractor). They were in the tropics too, and were in Tahiti for several months, and if the old Mutiny on the Bounty movie was anything to go by, there would have been many "pleasurable" encounters with the young natives. Certainly a better experience than the prickly end he met a few years laterhttp://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/...-telescope.png
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    Cloudy here all day. Was going to try 's welding helmet but no sun.
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    Well done Mic!!

    I don't know about you fellows but I have watched som interesting spectacles in my time:

    Nueman's Comet

    Halley's comet

    The explosion in the Magellanic clouds at the time Halley's comet was around. I happened to be outside stargazing at the right time.

    Schumacher- Levy and its breakup.

    The first footage of the Erruptions on Jupiter's moons

    The alignment of the planets last year

    The tansit of Venus this year
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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Well done Mic!!

    I don't know about you fellows but I have watched som interesting spectacles in my time:

    Nueman's Comet

    Halley's comet

    The explosion in the Magellanic clouds at the time Halley's comet was around. I happened to be outside stargazing at the right time.

    Schumacher- Levy and its breakup.

    The first footage of the Erruptions on Jupiter's moons

    The alignment of the planets last year

    The tansit of Venus this year
    A full moon from the back of a school bus
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    To cloudy where I was for Venus, but the 1/3 part eclipse of the moon by the earth the night before was a good one also

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    What's the purple roddy thing doing
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