Re: transit of Venus

[Mark Sylvester <msylvest@XNET.IT>]

Yep, it's the right black dot, now much closer to the edge of the disk as
the show nears its end.

Mark.

At 10:46 08/06/04 +0200, Mark Sylvester wrote:
> Well, the sun rose round the flank of the mountain at about 09:30 European
> Daylight Saving Time, and I unscrewed the eyepiece from one side of my
> birdwatching binoculars and spent a while trying to project an image of the
> sun's disk on a pad of paper. The normal focus range was not sufficient to
> get the eyepiece far enough from the objective focus.  At first there were
> many black spots, which rotated when I rotated the eye lens. These went
> away when I cleaned the lens. Finally I got it. A sharp image of the face
> of the sun a few cm across, with a beautiful fat black spot near the edge
> that stayed put when the optics moved slightly. After 15 minutes the
> position seems to have changed. I'll check again later to confirm, but for
> the moment I believe that I've seen it.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Mark Sylvester
> UWCAd
> Duino Trieste Italy

Mark Sylvester
UWCAd
Duino Trieste Italy