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Neil Heacock's Blog – June 2012 Archive (1)

Venus Transit

I watched the Venus transit from this afternoon to this evening along with Richard and Scott who come over to join me.

I started to setup at about 2:00 and was ready to go by the time Venus started to crest the limb of the Sun. It was cool watching it begin to chip away at the Sun. Just as it started to do that, the clouds came in and hid the Sun. When they cleared, Venus was about 3/4 of the way past the limb and I was looking forward to watching the full disk come…

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Added by Neil Heacock on June 5, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments