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Great ToV video compilation from NASA by palsing[_2_]
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nasa-provides-rare-images-transit-venus-144840865.html -or- http://tinyurl.com/7d7yy5c
June 7th 12 06:31 AM
by Chris.B[_2_] Go to last post
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Venus Transit pictures by [email protected][_2_]
Hi group, As someone else pointed out, it was a miraculous thing that the sky cleared here in southern Ontario (the weather forecasts were depressingly...
June 7th 12 06:20 AM
by Chris.B[_2_] Go to last post
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Transit of Venus--Trying to Get Ready by Davoud[_1_]
Hello? Anyone outside the astronomy community heard of this event!? I have not done a scientific survey but I have mentioned the ToV to more than a dozen...
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June 6th 12 08:07 PM
by Dr J R Stockton[_164_] Go to last post
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Radio Meteor Obs. Bull. May 2012 eta Aquarids by Chris Steyaert
Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin No. 226 of May 2012 (85K) is available now as http://www.rmob.org/rmobtext/rmob1205.txt More information and the visual...
June 6th 12 08:04 PM
by Chris Steyaert Go to last post
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ToV from the Chesapeake Bay by Davoud[_1_]
No one will be surprised to learn that Maryland skies never fully cleared during the transit. Nonetheless, my wife and I got a number of photos during a hazy...
June 6th 12 07:15 PM
by Bill Alecs Go to last post
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Transit of Venus from Nashville, TN by William Hamblen[_3_]
I operated a telescope in front of the Sudekum Planetarium from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, on the 5th of June. I didn't get any transit images but I did get a...
June 6th 12 05:54 PM
by Chris.B[_2_] Go to last post
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Fwd: Rare transit of Venus a boon to exoplanet researchers | ArsTechnica by Sam Wormley[_2_]
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Rare transit of Venus a boon to exoplanet researchers | Ars Technica Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:05:02 -0500 From:...
June 6th 12 05:46 PM
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Toronto (thankfully!) clears off for transit by Rich[_4_]
The previous days had been awful, the coming days look bad. The morning today was thick with clouds...but, about an hour before the start, the clouds more...
June 6th 12 05:44 PM
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Talk about getting lucky!!!!! by Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names[_1_]
I will miss the first 2 hours or so of the transit because of a meeting tonite. Orion XT-12, Orion solar filter, Panoptic 35mm eyepiece I caught the first...
June 6th 12 05:17 AM
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The historic 2012 Transit of Venus commences today | Space WeatherNews for June 5, 2012 by Sam Wormley[_2_]
Space Weather News for June 5, 2012 http://spaceweather.com TRANSIT OF VENUS: The historic 2012 Transit of Venus commences today, June 5th, at 3:09 pm...
June 5th 12 02:56 PM
by Sam Wormley[_2_] Go to last post
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Venus Saturday night by uncarollo
Hi all, I took some images of Venus on Saturday around 5:30pm. The first two images are single exposures taken with 175EDF refractor, Baader FFC barlow and my...
June 5th 12 02:45 PM
by Paul Schlyter[_3_] Go to last post
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Only alarmists are deniers now! by bjacoby
Dr. Hansen auto-sodomized by his own temperature data: http://www.mrk-inc.com/users/bspam/AGWGISSCHART.htm No global warming = No causality from STILL...
(Multi-page thread 1 2 3)
June 5th 12 12:38 PM
by Marvin the Martian Go to last post
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Because of the *&%&$(& Republicans, I won't see the transit of Venus by Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names[_1_]
I'm the chief election official at one of the precincts in my Virginia county. Virginia Republicans are having a primary election on 12 June to decide on a...
June 5th 12 02:21 AM
by palsing[_2_] Go to last post
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Transit of Venus--RAINING by lal_truckee
in California. after being high 70s and perfectly clear for weeks. WTF
June 4th 12 11:03 PM
by Paul Ciszek Go to last post
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Is this granularity? by Paul Ciszek
I finally figured out how to take the 16-bit per channel raw image from my solar captures and blow up the contrast beyond all reason. When printed as an 8x10,...
June 4th 12 06:40 PM
by Ben[_2_] Go to last post
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Transit of Venus link by Ben[_2_]
Here is a link to a live broadcast of the ToVen tomorrow from Mauna Kea: http://venustransit.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/
June 4th 12 02:45 PM
by Ben[_2_] Go to last post
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Transit of Venus: Measuring the heavens in the 18th century | DrStuart Clark | Science | guardian.co.uk by Sam Wormley[_2_]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may/29/transit-venus-measuring-heavens The 1761 transit of Venus was a watershed moment in the history of...
June 4th 12 03:54 AM
by Sam Wormley[_2_] Go to last post
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broken arm on ETX-90RA, how to repair? by Eric[_34_]
I have an older ETX-90RA where the right forked arm that holds the OTA was broken about 8 years ago. I glued it with plastic glue a few years back and it...
June 4th 12 12:59 AM
by Androcles[_77_] Go to last post
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Venus Transit. North or South? by W. eWatson[_2_]
A couple of web sites I've looked at for the transit, have the approach coming from either the north or south. Which is correct? Human eye vs inverted...
June 3rd 12 09:36 PM
by William Hamblen[_3_] Go to last post
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What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus by Sam Wormley[_2_]
NASA Science News for June 2, 2012 What's the best reason to observe the 2012 Transit of Venus? It could be history. Today's story from Science@NASA...
June 3rd 12 07:32 PM
by Sam Wormley[_2_] Go to last post
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