Transit of Venus

Transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun are among the rarest of planetary alignments. Indeed, only six such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope (1631, 1639, 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882). The next two transits of Venus will occur on 2004 June 08 and 2012 June 06. Read more here <----------------------------- Venus' Transit

Yesterday my class and  i gathered at one location to join in on the exciting event of Venus transiting the sun.    This is an extraordinary event and i was happy that i could be apart of it. Unfortunately, the weather did not turn out the way we excepted; it was cloudy and looked like it was about to rain. We got excited for seconds when the sun shown slightly behind the clouds and we saw our shadows, but it quickly disappeared behind a cloud. We were prepared for this rare occurrence with our handy dandy Solar Eclipse Viewer. CAN'T HAVE US HURTING OUR EYES NOW. We had our telescope prepared two hours before the actual event just to be ready, and we had a live broadcast from Mongolia and Australia, just in case we couldn't see the transit due to the weather. WE WERE GREATLY PREPARED, but sadly the weather was not our side. 

Projection ready in the planetarium for the live broadcast from
Mongolia and Australia. 

We had our telescope ready. CLOSEST I'VE EVER BEEN TO A TELESCOPE. 

Solar Eclipse Viewer. Protects your eye's from harmful UV rays while looking  at the transit. 

Our professor has been excited for this event for months and did not hesitate to bring out all the equipment for the crowd to see the transit nice and clear. The equipment included a projector, laptop and high tech telescope. 

Many people gathered at the local high school to see the transit; some even brought their own telescopes. Unfortunately, the weather was not on our side and the clouds took over the sky.