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scmb1 · 2012-06-06 11:17:56

I had swim practice during it so I didn't see it. But I saw the eclipse a few weeks ago. It was amazing! big_smile

Greenatic · 2012-06-06 12:20:25

I, for one, forgot to take a picture. I had my camera and everything! sad

backspace_ · 2012-06-06 12:30:23

Dinoclor wrote:
jukyter wrote:
:'(
I had to watch the Queen on a balcony instead.
D:

WHY IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENT THAT OCCURS ONCE EVERY 105 YEARS?!

Seriously, would you like to watch an old person on a balcony or a NASA special?

People are ridiculous.

well if you're looking for opinions I'd rather watch neither because they are both useless wastes of time.

Greenatic · 2012-06-06 14:09:45

backspace_ wrote:
Dinoclor wrote:
jukyter wrote:
:'(
I had to watch the Queen on a balcony instead.
D:

WHY IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENT THAT OCCURS ONCE EVERY 105 YEARS?!

Seriously, would you like to watch an old person on a balcony or a NASA special?

People are ridiculous.
well if you're looking for opinions I'd rather watch neither because they are both useless wastes of time.

And posting that isn't? tongue

nama · 2012-06-06 14:55:02

It was completely clouded over where I live but we drove around for an hour and a half until we found the one hole in the clouds and saw it through that. :p

All4one · 2012-06-06 16:11:12

sparks wrote:
All4one wrote:
We had clear skies today, and it was perfect weather for transit-gazing. It was amazing. We watched it in a local observatory - they were selling those sunglasses for $3 each. It was amazing.
Haha, I knew someone was gonna find a way to make money out of this!

tongue True.

GameHutSoftware · 2012-06-06 18:03:27

Dinoclor wrote:
jukyter wrote:
:'(
I had to watch the Queen on a balcony instead.
D:

WHY IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENT THAT OCCURS ONCE EVERY 105 YEARS?!

Seriously, would you like to watch an old person on a balcony or a NASA special?

People are ridiculous.

Actually, it happens twice every 100 or so years. It happens, waits 8 years, happens again, waits about 100 years, and repeats.

Hardmath123 · 2012-06-06 21:36:35

I got up early, set up my telescope, a concave mirror, and a prototype pinhole camera, and got totally clouded out. sad

Greenatic · 2012-06-06 21:42:20

Hardmath123 wrote:
I got up early, set up my telescope, a concave mirror, and a prototype pinhole camera, and got totally clouded out.

Ouch. sad It was really cloudy here too, plus we could only see 2 hours of it before sunset (too bad I live in the Eastern USA). I got really lucky though, and there was a small hole in the clouds. smile

hdarken · 2012-06-06 22:32:18

I got a video of it, and some pictures.

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backspace_ · 2012-06-06 22:41:58

Greenatic wrote:
backspace_ wrote:
Dinoclor wrote:

D:

WHY IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENT THAT OCCURS ONCE EVERY 105 YEARS?!

Seriously, would you like to watch an old person on a balcony or a NASA special?

People are ridiculous.
well if you're looking for opinions I'd rather watch neither because they are both useless wastes of time.
And posting that isn't?

this is a semi-entertaining waste of time wink

Greenatic · 2012-06-07 10:03:41

backspace_ wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
backspace_ wrote:

well if you're looking for opinions I'd rather watch neither because they are both useless wastes of time.
And posting that isn't?
this is a semi-entertaining waste of time

Well, I think watching the Venus Transit is more than just semi-entertaining... tongue

@hdarken: Nice photo! How long into the transit did you take it?

Hardmath123 · 2012-06-07 10:09:36

hdarken wrote:
I got a video of it, and some pictures.

http://i.imgur.com/f5RcM.png

Sweet! How'd you get it? I could never figure out how to get a pic out of my telescope. Last time I tried was when I got 4 moons + Jupiter in the frame and tried to take a picture with my iPad... tongue

scratchisthebest · 2012-06-07 10:46:43

Someone made a celebration song.
(Not mine, but I like it! smile )

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jukyter · 2012-06-07 14:00:48

Dinoclor wrote:
jukyter wrote:
:'(
I had to watch the Queen on a balcony instead.
D:

WHY IS THAT MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL EVENT THAT OCCURS ONCE EVERY 105 YEARS?!

Seriously, would you like to watch an old person on a balcony or a NASA special?

People are ridiculous.

And me nor my parents are royalists. :'(
We were on holiday with three families of them. I'd rather have watched Glee (someone brought along the DVDs and we were watching them at night-it was going to be Karaoke Night tongue )

werdna123 · 2012-06-07 14:05:34

I knew about it but didn't bother getting up that early to see it.

TorbyFork234 · 2012-06-07 14:13:12

Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?

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Greenatic · 2012-06-07 14:20:03

TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?

It looks the same, but tinier. That's why people used telescopes--they make it much easier to see in detail.

TorbyFork234 · 2012-06-07 14:27:04

Greenatic wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?
It looks the same, but tinier. That's why people used telescopes--they make it much easier to see in detail.

I know. I could easily imagine what the youtube videos of the transit of venus looked liked with the giant red circle with a smaller black circle, but it would be better if I saw a picture taken by a guy without a telescope. Then I could get a better understanding of what it looked like from the ground.

Greenatic · 2012-06-07 15:22:15

TorbyFork234 wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?
It looks the same, but tinier. That's why people used telescopes--they make it much easier to see in detail.
I know. I could easily imagine what the youtube videos of the transit of venus looked liked with the giant red circle with a smaller black circle, but it would be better if I saw a picture taken by a guy without a telescope. Then I could get a better understanding of what it looked like from the ground.

Well, I'll try to explain what it looked like with the special sunglasses. smile It was quite simple--imagine looking at the sun, but instead of being painfully bright, it's a moderate orange with a little black dot near the top. smile

slinger · 2012-06-07 15:26:09

TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?

Well, this might be what you're looking for. It's obviously not from a high powered telescope tongue

Greenatic · 2012-06-07 15:36:59

slinger wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?
Well, this might be what you're looking for. It's obviously not from a high powered telescope

My view of it looked a lot like that, although the clouds were different tongue

TorbyFork234 · 2012-06-07 18:17:32

slinger wrote:
TorbyFork234 wrote:
Why couldn't anyone have taken a video of what it looks like from on the ground without a telescope and put it on youtube? On youtube all it has is videos of it from telescopes and such.
Can someone post a picture of what it looked like from the ground, no telescope?
Well, this might be what you're looking for. It's obviously not from a high powered telescope

Thanks! now I can kinda picture it from ground view.

slinger · 2012-06-08 05:29:39

You're welcome!

hdarken · 2012-06-08 18:44:36

Hardmath123 wrote:
hdarken wrote:
I got a video of it, and some pictures.

http://i.imgur.com/f5RcM.png
Sweet! How'd you get it? I could never figure out how to get a pic out of my telescope. Last time I tried was when I got 4 moons + Jupiter in the frame and tried to take a picture with my iPad...

Thanks! I used a Cannon Power Shot SD1100 IS with these binoculars. I've tried using my telescope to take pictures but it never worked. I took a video through my camera because the pictures were to blurry ,and I could pick out a nice frame from the video.

Here's a better picture of the transit:

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