Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The Planets really DO revolve around the Sun!

This glorious event will never happen again in our lifetime.....so here are some pictures for our memories......Venus is moving between the Earth and the Sun - so that we may see it transiting across the face of the Sun. 




  
 
Venus is the large black dot in the upper left corner. 
These pics are about 15 minutes apart. 
The smaller black dots are sunspots.


A few weeks ago there was an Annular Solar Eclipse visible from here in Boise and I was able to pass along ~275 pairs of solar viewing glasses. I encouraged everyone to save them to be able view today's event as well, but unfortunately it is very cloudy / rainy here today. ; (  YEA - for other nerdy people around the world posting their live feeds.

Here are a few pics that I took of the Solar eclipse on May 20th:
Crescent shaped Sun/Moon shadows, through the tree, on the fence.

The Moon and the Sun, having a little party.



Nerds in Action.
 

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