[meteorite-list] OT Transit of Venus

From: moni waiblinger-seabridge <moni2555_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 09:23:08 2004
Message-ID: <BAY14-F8qK87Mi5ZNYH0005dd0c_at_hotmail.com>

Excellent images Bernd!!

'Wow, so small?!' was also my reaction!!

Sternengruss, Moni :-)


>From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de
>To: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] OT Transit of Venus
>Date: 08 Jun 2004 13:09:16 UT
>
>Tracy:
>
> > people ... in Europe shold have an excellent view
>
>José:
>
> > Here in Portugal its quite clear today. For us, the transit has already
> > started. I hope that your local weather improves! Good observing to all!
>
>Pekka:
>
> > in the middle of Finland we have at the moment
> > excellent circumstances, no clouds at all.
>
>Jeannie:
>
> > Cloudy in Alaska, as usual when there is something up
> > there I want to see! I even got a new solar filter...sigh.
>
>Martin:
>
> > here in Munich are perfect conditions! In my 8"-SC
> > just great, never saw such a large Venus.
>
>Marco:
>
> > The Sun with Venus are projected on my ceiling at this moment,
> > through my old 4.5" Newton. And it is a *very* attractive sight,
> > much more attractive than the Mercury transit last year. Venus
> > is actually quite big!
>
>Eric:
>
> > The clouds made a great filter though early on ...
>
>Stuart:
>
> > From here in Edinburgh we saw most of it.
>
>**************************
>
>Hello List,
>
>We had perfect excellent weather conditions too here in Southern
>Germany. So we were able to watch both the ingress, the complete
>transit and the egress at around 13:20 Central European Daylight
>Saving Time. Me too, like Marco and Martin, I was very impressed
>by the overwhelmingly large size of the Venusian disk against the
>Sun and it was quite a thrill for my students when I reminded them
>that that was also about the size of our Earth. "Wow, so small ?!"
>some of them shouted in disbelief.
>
>After returning home from school, I uploaded some digital pics I
>quickly shot at around 13 hrs after hastily setting up my own scope,
>a Celestron-8, without fine-adjusting it. If interested, go to (you will
>have to copy and paste):
>
>http://de.photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorit/lst?&.dir=/VENUS+TRANSIT+2004&.src=gr&.view=t&.url=http%3a//us.f1.yahoofs.com/groups/g_4089436/VENUS%2bTRANSIT%2b2004/Venus%2bTransit%2b%25231.jpg%3fbc5C8wvBePRybutD&.cx=150&.cy=141&.type=u
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bernd
>
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