Transit of Venus! Tuesday!

mahatman2 · 2012-06-04 13:20:47

The more astronomically-minded of you might be aware of this already, but there is going to be a transit of the sun by Venus this coming Tuesday! It (or part of it) will be viewable from almost everywhere - to see when you can see it you can look here.

In case this makes no sense, here is a picture:

(source)

And this Tuesday is the last time it will happen until 2117. I'm gonna watch it - who's with me?!

alfbar1 · 2012-06-04 15:31:37

good info

noman · 2012-06-04 20:39:12

Thanks for the heads up. I'm gonna go get some packing tubes and see about making a pinhole projector for the neighborhood kids.

ArttuH5N1 · 2012-06-05 00:26:26

This was hyped in our yellow media. "This awesome thing is coming, that nobody alive now will ever see again!" Many were disappointed, when they read what the fuss was about.

And isn't this kind of "once in a lifetime" thing actually quite common in spacey* things?

(*not sure what word to use, so I used an almost word. F* it, it 3:25 in the morning.)

noman · 2012-06-05 01:07:24

Spacey is cool. Astronomical might be better, if speaking formally. The next transit will occur in 2117, so there will probably be a few people who see it tomorrow, who live to see the next one. I would have to live to be 144, so I won't hold my breath.

For me it's mainly an excuse to take off early tomorrow afternoon, show the kids something neat. Maybe one of them will find it inspiring.

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 01:12:01

Thanks for the info & links - I will try to catch it - interesting perspective from earth for time and space cool

ArttuH5N1 · 2012-06-05 03:50:48

noman wrote:

Spacey is cool. Astronomical might be better, if speaking formally. The next transit will occur in 2117, so there will probably be a few people who see it tomorrow, who live to see the next one. I would have to live to be 144, so I won't hold my breath.
For me it's mainly an excuse to take off early tomorrow afternoon, show the kids something neat. Maybe one of them will find it inspiring.

Avaruudellinen (Finnish, word for a thing relating to space) was the word on my mind. I got confused with astronomical and astrological and I didn't want to make any horrible mistakes, hence spacey big_smile

I would be 125. If modern medicine doesn't take some serious leaps forward, I'm not going to see next time this happens. Finland winning the Eurovision Song Contest for the second time would be more likely, and that's VERY unlikely.

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mahatman2 · 2012-06-05 04:02:55

You know there is one futurist who thinks that by 2050, humans will be immortal! He thinks we'll be able to upload our consciousnesses to the cloud... tongue Hope it's a linux box!

vicshrike · 2012-06-05 04:12:26

^Then we can #! into eternity... big_smile or at the least til the sun frys us all.

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 04:15:36

....Space The Final Frontier

ArttuH5N1 · 2012-06-05 04:21:02

mahatman2 wrote:

You know there is one futurist who thinks that by 2050, humans will be immortal! He thinks we'll be able to upload our consciousnesses to the cloud... Hope it's a linux box!

We will be able to jack into cyberspace with out cyberdecks (made by Ono-Sendai), while catching replicants and driving flying cars. And machines have been enslaved by apes. And turn out, it was earth all along.

Digit · 2012-06-05 04:43:52

oh my, that's an impressive transit too, a freaky tight loop like that. ... is... is it going retrograde right over the sun? yikes yikes

arclance · 2012-06-05 18:22:33

Cool I did not know about it.
I got my telescope and solar filter out of my garage.
Hopefully the clouds go away in time.

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 21:35:51

Found free phone app for viewing, IOS or ANDROID on home page >>>>

http://www.transitofvenus.org/

cool the time is upon us now!

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 21:38:19

mahatman2 wrote:

The more astronomically-minded of you might be aware of this already, but there is going to be a transit of the sun by Venus this coming Tuesday! It (or part of it) will be viewable from almost everywhere - to see when you can see it you can look here.
In case this makes no sense, here is a picture:
(source)
And this Tuesday is the last time it will happen until 2117. I'm gonna watch it - who's with me?!

The first link for map times is now dead?

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 22:38:31

cOOL watch live with audio cast now

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ … sit-venus/]

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 23:00:09

Is anyone else checking this very educational awesome super cool event out tongue
can be viewed from multiple sites around the world

arclance · 2012-06-05 23:01:46

^ I was going to but the weather is not cooperating.

And the NASA Link looks link it's from a projection camera (like a pinhole) and not an optical image which would be cooler.

I have a solar filter for my telescope that I was going to use but it's completely overcast here.

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Vansgo · 2012-06-05 23:11:25

Clouds here as well - the wired link above is working well for optical visual in real time - no additional filers required cool

arclance · 2012-06-05 23:13:41

I see that they seem to be changing the wavelength they are showing it was white when I first opened which is why I doubted it was optical.
I am not getting realtime here though it's very laggy like a video that will not cache.

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Vansgo · 2012-06-05 23:20:22

I am getting some choppiness now, viewers increasing.....

arclance · 2012-06-05 23:25:51

If you want it to fill the window you can use this link, I got it by looking at the page source.

http://www.ustream.tv/embed/8720472?autoplay=true

Vansgo · 2012-06-05 23:46:53

The Exploratorium view has some music going with live view.

ArttuH5N1 · 2012-06-06 00:40:11

Just checking the stream (big thanks, by the way!) to actually see something.

ArttuH5N1 · 2012-06-06 00:53:22

I read that the transit is only visible only between 4am and 8am here in Southern Finland, and it is pretty cloudy now. I have a cheap telescope, and could do some kind of projection thingy, but "this time", I have to pass. "Next visible (to Finland) transit will happen in 11.6. 2247".

Damn you spacey (:P) things, only showing up once in a lifetime!

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