Venus Interest Explodes!

[manasecret]

*edit The title should read 'Venus Interest Explodes!'

*edit2 Sorry, the real title should read 'Venus Interest Explodes!..oh Wait,False Alarm.Rare Solar Event and Still No One Cares.'

Anyway, considering most of North America will have trouble seeing the Venus transit across the sun, here's a webcam link.

Venus Transit

It's a long night but well worth it. Just grab a few beers and do a Venus dance around a fire or something..

[Happydude]

well...thank you for posting it so late....

[Yugi Starwind]

woulda been cool if i could see it on time, and for real..

[DimHalo]

yeah, same here... i would have watched... oh well

[manasecret]

Sorry, I usually assume everyone is aware enough to know when such rare events happen.

But you can still see a lot of better pictures (and some movies) here.

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/

EDIT:

Wow, those movies from that website are incredible. Here's some direct links:

(I recommend right-clicking and save-as, they take a little while)

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans.../1600_0743.mov

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...L_eastlimb.mov

http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/trans...0_eastlimb.mov


You can get all those from the website above.

These are all photos taken from the TRACE telescope that orbits the Earth. It's been used for many many other scientific missions (and also recorded the Mercury transit May of last year).

It has all the different colored pictures because it takes photo measurements of the sun in different wavelengths (some invisible to the human eye), and then adds colors to them to make them distinct from each other I suppose.

[Stonecutter]

Even google is getting into the act today, check it out

www.google.com

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by happydude666

well...thank you for posting it so late....

I too, feel similar to happydude. I'd also like to sarcastically thank space programs across our nation for not spreading the news to the public better.