The Transit of Venus....

[Sair33]

Zak's thread reminded me of this......

On June 8, Venus will pass in front of the sun, for the first time in living memory, 122 years.

Cool huh?! <---- sunglasses on

See here for more info

[Zak33]

Ford make the Transit....and its IS big...but how the HELL will it obstruct a planet?

It only just manages to obstruct the High Street


I'll go then

[directhex]

depends how close it is to the sun really, zakky - compare the effect of putting your hand in front of a light bulb right up close vs 1m away on the light in the room

[turkster]

Sounds interesting . I will have to remember to take a look at that.

[El Gordo]

Sounds interesting . I will have to remember to take a look at that.

Hope your not planning anything silly like looking directly at the sun when this happens (its DOES happen you know). And especially don't go looking through any binocs or a telescope at it or you wont be posting on here anymore.

Fancy learning brail anyone?

[Rave]

I wonder if I've still got my viewing glasses left over from the eclipse?

Rich :¬)

[turkster]

Hope your not planning anything silly like looking directly at the sun when this happens (its DOES happen you know). And especially don't go looking through any binocs or a telescope at it or you wont be posting on here anymore.

Fancy learning brail anyone?

No dont worry will knock up a projector for it.

[SilentDeath]

no resons why you cant look at it directly. as long as your eyes are adjusted to the amount of light they will recive when the sun gets unblocked. during an eclipe the sun will be no brighter than normal you are just not used to it, too much light gets into your eyes becuase they adjust to low light situations and then too much light gets in and burns your retinas, which leads to blindness. IOW shine bright light into your eyes as you watch it, your eyes will limit the amount able to get in, and your eyes wont burn

[turkster]

Well I dont think our eyes can cope with the amount of light the sun gives out. Granted they can adjust but that amount of light is just too much .

The transit of venus is not an eclipse so it will not fully obscure the sun. In fact the transit may not even be noticable unless you see a projection of it. Anyway it is extremely unlikely that you would be a ble to see this kind of phenomena with the naked eye because of the HDR effect when looking at bright objects like the sun.

[SilentDeath]

Yes, I didnt consider that.. howwever its still fun to look at the sun on a normal day...

[turkster]

You're strange