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07 Jun 04 - 07:48 AM (#1201855) Subject: Origins: Venus Transit From: beardedbruce Link to website There will be a transit of Venus across the sun June 8. Please see the website- Last transit in 1882 gave us this march- What this time? |
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07 Jun 04 - 01:27 PM (#1202126) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit From: open mike yes-this IS a music thread, inspired by this event: VENUS TRANSIT: On June 8th, for the first time since 1882, Venus will pass directly between Earth and the Sun. The planet's black silhouette will be visible from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and eastern parts of the Americas. Visit Spaceweather.com for observing tips and links to live webcasts from around the world. SPACE STATION TRANSIT: Transits of Venus are rare, but this is unprecedented: The International Space Station (ISS) is going to cross the Sun four times during the 6+ hour transit of Venus on June 8th. Advanced observers in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia might be able to record the double transit. Get the details at this site: http://www.spaceweather.com/ for info on sightings, time tables, links to websites showing live images when it happens, etc. in north america it will be visible mostly from the Eastern parts. Europe and the mid-east will have a better view. INFO here: http://science.nasa.gov/ |
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07 Jun 04 - 01:55 PM (#1202154) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit From: Stilly River Sage Here is a NASA countdown to the event. It includes a link to a live webcast when it starts. Much easier on the eyes! Don't try to view it from home unless you use a pinhole camera! Here's a link for an easy one to build. SRS |
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07 Jun 04 - 01:59 PM (#1202157) Subject: RE: Venus Transit From: open mike music thread-- Venus Transit March--John Phillip Souza |
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07 Jun 04 - 02:37 PM (#1202179) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Stilly River Sage Yes--I heard a sound-bite of that on the radio the other day when the story played. Probably on NPR. Let's see. . .searching . . . searching. . . Here's the link. It was played during an interview by Scott Simon on Saturday's Weekend Editon. SRS |
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07 Jun 04 - 03:12 PM (#1202197) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: *daylia* thank you very much, beardedbruce! I just printed out the piano score - my students will have something different (and timely!) to sightread this evening. May Venus lovingly transit all of your hearts tonight! daylia |
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07 Jun 04 - 03:54 PM (#1202214) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Ed. It doesn't happen until tomorrow, daylia |
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07 Jun 04 - 04:44 PM (#1202240) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: GUEST,jennifer Will the glasses we got for the solar eclipse in 1999 be safe, anyone know? |
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07 Jun 04 - 05:18 PM (#1202259) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: greg stephens Well, I just got back from Whitby (Yorkshire coast, England) where we (the Boat Band) were doing the music for an outdoor dusk spectacular to celebrate the transit.(OK, a couple of days early, but it was the weekend). We worked by the ruins of the abbey (scene of the famous Synod of Whitby,664 AD, which settled the means of calculating the date of Easter for the whole Christian world. And where Rome shafted the Celts, but dont lets get personal). A strange beautiful headland a long way fro anywhere significant, why did they choose there...people came all the way from Rome to talk). Snyway, I digress. A lovely calm evening, lantern procession (re-enacting the transit) fireworks sunset (real, not staged) music etc etc. Why Whitby? Well, Captain Cook, Whitby's favourite sun, went of the to the South Seas to measure some stuff during the transit of Venus in 17 hundred and lahdidah. Whether this was his first trip, or his last (where the the revolting natives eat him) I am not sure. Anyway agood time was had by all. A nice little domestic sized show, 500 audience tops, but another memorable celebration to add to the memoirs (fireworks on the burning galleons in Plymouth Sound, Armada 400th anniversary in 1988 was probably the most fun and tecnhically most challenging. Especcially after the event, being towed up the Tamar, sitting on top of the scaffolding rig drinking Glenmorangie out of the bottle). Whitby 2004 was civilised, fun and peaceful. Enjoy the transit tomorrow. |
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07 Jun 04 - 09:08 PM (#1202391) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: *daylia* That's true, Ed ... but here in Ontario the transit starts around 1 am tonight and ends just before sunrise. So I'll wake up tomorrow thoroughly "Venused" already, I guess. My students liked the March just fine ... when I played it for them, that is. As for sightreading, well, the part with five flats made it a bit less than "fun" for most of them. Oh well .... Here's some pics of Venus as she moves towards the transit. Looks like these are updated minute by minute. Unfortunately the link SRS gave from NASA keeps giving me an Error message - this one seems a bit more user-friendly. Enjoy! daylia |
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08 Jun 04 - 02:16 AM (#1202485) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Stilly River Sage That link finally worked for me but it isn't doing anything now that the countdown is over. Bummer. I found a link to a satellite feed that will update images. http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/. Here's one through the Exploratorium in San Francisco, feed coming from somewhere else since those of us from Dallas westward can't see the event. http://http.earthcache.net/www.exploratorium.edu/venusEC/webcast.html. It says that between live shots (like watching paint dry?) they'll post still photos. I think still photos will work fine for me--they no doubt load a lot faster (but none seem to be available yet). That sure is a strange URL. SRS |
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08 Jun 04 - 02:21 AM (#1202487) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Stilly River Sage A lot of sites just aren't loading--probably too many others like myself trying to take a peek. UK and US (east coast) Mudcatters, enjoy the show live if you have clear enough weather to see it. I'm off to bed. I'll look for photos in the morning. SRS |
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08 Jun 04 - 02:58 AM (#1202491) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: open mike apparently eclipse glasses are adequate, although the sun will not be darkened as in an eclipse. here is an excerpt from the NASA site The transit begins at 1:13 a.m. EDT (in the middle of the night) and ends at 7:26 a.m. EDT. If you can see the Sun before 7:26 a.m. EDT, then you can see the transit. Sky watchers east of the Mississippi River are favored. The transit will not be visible at all from Mexico, British Columbia and the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. A transit of Venus isn't like a solar eclipse. The Sun won't be blotted out or even noticeably dimmed. Venus is too small; the disk of the planet covers only 0.1% of the Sun. Although Venus is tiny, you can probably see it without magnification. Try looking through a safe solar filter, for example, #13 or #14 welder's glass or special "eclipse glasses" designed for solar viewing. (Do NOT use stacked sunglasses, metallized candy wrappers or compact disks; these are unsafe filters often recommended in error.) Seen through a good filter, the Sun looks like a glowing disk, about the size of the Moon, marked with a black speck--Venus. |
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08 Jun 04 - 06:32 AM (#1202589) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Clazza This site is still working: http://www.astrocruise.com/venus_transit/transit.htm and will be showing selected stills later in the day. It also has some awesome pics of other events. Enjoy. It's not quite finished yet. Claire |
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08 Jun 04 - 07:43 AM (#1202623) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: GUEST,Keith A o Hertford I saw it just after 9am local. it was at about 5 o clock position. I used glass smoked in a candle flame. Difficult to see though. No hope of seeing the station.Failed to see it by pinhole projection. Keith. |
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08 Jun 04 - 10:55 AM (#1202725) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Fibula Mattock Saw it by projecting the sun through a pair of mini binoculars onto a white piece of paper. Very cool. There'll be another one in 2012, apparently. |
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08 Jun 04 - 12:16 PM (#1202767) Subject: RE: Origins: Venus Transit March From: Stilly River Sage Here is a marvelous photo that loads very slowly, even on DSL. It's worth the wait. It came from the first site I linked to in my 2:16am post. The next transit, in 2012, will be visible primarily to anyone in the Polynesian Islands. SRS |
