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Solar Transit of Venus

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chicken
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In just over a week this will occur. This is your last chance to see this in your lifetime. It is much more exciting than a mercury transit, or even a solar eclipse.

Make sure you go out and buy some welding glass (#14) or build yourself a projection device wuch as a pinhole camera!

Who else is really stoked on this?
May 29 2012 3:09PM
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currentwestman
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i thought it was mars
May 29 2012 3:57PM
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chicken
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impossible
May 29 2012 8:10PM
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EricaMN.
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i thought it was pluto?
May 29 2012 8:10PM
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Davin
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what is it and what is the cause of it?
May 29 2012 8:34PM
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currentwestman
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interesting
May 30 2012 1:07AM
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POW-WOW
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This

And how will a t2i with a kit lens work?

t2i with a kit lens do?Click for larger image
May 30 2012 1:58AM
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Lucas
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May 30 2012 2:11AM
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chicken
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Do it! you don't even need a proper filter. Just use lighter welding glass and a short exposure.

would kinda suck to fry a decent camera like that though
May 30 2012 4:07AM
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ThaLorax
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any actual links on this?
May 30 2012 5:00AM
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chicken
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http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus
May 30 2012 5:03AM
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ThaLorax
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thanks
May 30 2012 5:06AM
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chicken
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Today is the day! It looks like I might miss out on this due to clouds :( . I urge anyone who has sun today to take the opportunity witness this amazing once (more) in a lifetime celestial show!
Jun 5 2012 2:49PM
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PacificRimJob
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Not quite a lunar transit of the sun though. Absolutely impossible to see with naked eye. You need to either have a very well conceived pinhole or some type of lunar filter on a telescope to see it at all well.

Either way, I'd be much happier to see us make some kinda manned mission to venus, if only to flyby the planet. It could practically be done with 1960's apollo hardware. I say we give it a shot, as Venus is much closer/accessible than Mars and it would be a sweet warmup..

anyways. dreams...
Jun 5 2012 2:55PM
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Wolffy
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i stared at the sun for 10 seconds and my vision has been blurry for the past 3 hours...
Jun 5 2012 2:58PM
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Bumblesteeze
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Venus has a toxic atmosphere so landing on it would be impossible.
Jun 5 2012 3:03PM
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mowglii
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but venus is where women come from so think of all the sex
Jun 5 2012 3:10PM
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Bumblesteeze
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You're talking out of Uranus, Venus is toxic!
Jun 5 2012 3:19PM
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PacificRimJob
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Did I say land? I said flyby lol. As in, think of an ISS mission above Venus for a year to do research on the atmosphere to see what could potentially happen to earth if a runaway greenhouse gas situation occurs, and use that hands on research to perhaps find ways to stop it... I think it would be pretty dope, personally...
Jun 5 2012 3:25PM
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Bumblesteeze
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My bad, I misread your post..
That would definitely be sweet, but I'd rather have someone land on mars. Venus is an interesting planet though, maybe there was life on there before the atmosphere turned toxic. Who knows..
Jun 5 2012 4:01PM
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PacificRimJob
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Obviously I'd rather have a Mars mission - It's actually possibly hospitable... but Venus is closer, cheaper (without the landing and life support systems needed for a martian landing), and possibly more relevant for a fly-by mission due to it's similarities to Earth...
Jun 5 2012 4:11PM
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Juicy-J
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FILMFILMFILMFILMFILM
Jun 5 2012 5:55PM
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E__
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I got at least 2 hours of footage so far, hopefully it turns out decent.
Jun 5 2012 9:35PM
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