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Slide 1
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Oh, what a beautiful Morning ... Oh
what a beautiful sunrise! As we first set up the
equipment, the Sun was still fighting its way through the
horizon haze - some of us could see Venus against the Sun
disk through the "haze filter" (at this point
the eclipse glasses were not seeing Venus yet - too much
light was being blocked from the haze, and the telescope
projected image was too faint). |
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Slide 2
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I could fib and say "oh, yes, I
just pointed my digital camera at the Sun .." - but I
won't! This is the image that was projected onto a white
screen (I increased the contrast and dropped the
brightness - it wasn't that orange). But, this very
clearly shows how large Venus was, relative to the Sun.
(Also, the surface of the white foamcore board does a
great job of simulating the actual surface 'granulation'
of the Sun, caused by the convective currents causing the
mottled {due to temperature differences} surface!) |
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Slide 3
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Our hearty band of observers, left to
right : Steve's dad, Steve (from my Astronomy class), Joey
(behind Steve, count the feet), Joe (from the Astronomy
class), Mary (behind the sheet that blocks the extra light
to the screen - my sister-in-law's sister), and a couple
from the area that happened along (after reading about the
transit in the paper) and joined us! [I'm taking the
picture ... you might ask why I didn't set it on a tripod
... count the legs behind Joe, I have two tripods set up
to string the sheet so that we could darken the screen for
the telescope image.] |
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Slide 4
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Mary, demonstrating the correct use of
the Eclipse glasses (while still supporting the screen!). |
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Slide 5
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Talk about product placement ... the
minions of Eclipse brand Shades have obviously struck a
deal with Dr. Schneider - that sellout! |
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Slide 6
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Not all of the locals were entralled by
the transit ... |
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Slide 7
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The transit was almost called off when
the SUN BUGS attacked!! (The reason it was out of focus
... I was scared silly!) |
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Slide 8
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Nothing like a celestial event to cause
many very intelligent people to look at a small black dot
on a bigger yellow dot on a giant white screen. Yeah Venus
- kudos!!! |
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Slide 9
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The Transit of Venus as
seen by Google! |
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