Transit of Venus
 

I think she was screaming for you to stay away from the cat.

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"Horvath" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:48:15 -0400, "katysails"
wrote this crap:

Horvath replied with a question:
Are you talking about Jon-boy's brains again?

No, I was referring to your anatomy....

That's not what you were screaming last night.




Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Transit of Venus
 

I think she was screaming for you to stay away from the cat.

It was a floor mop. Whorevath doesn't see well in the dark.

RB

Transit of Venus
 

OzOne wrote:
On 8 Jun 2004 12:16:45 -0700, (Joe) scribbled
thusly:


"Jeff Morris"

Give it a shot, it doesn't happen often.


It storming with a thick cloud cover here, Guess Ill catch it next time:)

Joe


Watched the whole show at sunset yesterday through a scope fitted with
a Hydrogen Alpha filter.....superb.
Only 8 years till the next transit.



Are you in some sort of accelerated time frame in OZ? The "whole show" lasted
for some hours, must have been some sunset! ;-)

Cheers
Marty

Transit of Venus
 

"Bill Farina" wrote in message ...
I woke up early and located a high place to view from. It was a little
hazy, but the haze acted like a filter and I could actually see the sun
without an additional filter.

I had my digital camera along and snapped a couple of pictures, turned out
pretty cool, but a bit on the blurry side. I tried the pinhole camera idea a
little later on when the sun was higher in the sky, but the image was too
small to see anything.

http://www.venture-1.com/~billf/ToV-002.jpg shows a blurry Venus in the
lower right corner, but I'm trying to figure out what got into
http://www.venture-1.com/~billf/ToV-003.jpg. Bird? Sunspot?


Clearly fakes, I can see the 3 wires you hung your sun on ;)
Try fishing string next time

Joe







"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
...
Don't forget to check out the Transit of Venus across the Sun in about 10
hours.
Observers on the US East Coast will be in "mid transit" at sunrise and
will have
about 2 hours of viewing. (The West Coast loses out this time!)

As with an eclipse, don't look directly at the Sun; I'm going to try
projecting
the image with binoculars.

Give it a shot, it doesn't happen often. In fact, its only been observed
5
times before, last time was 1882. The next one is in 2012, but after that
we
wait over 100 years.

http://www.transitofvenus.org/faq.htm

Transit of Venus
 

Jeff Morris wrote:

Don't forget to check out the Transit of Venus across the Sun in about 10 hours.
Observers on the US East Coast will be in "mid transit" at sunrise and will have
about 2 hours of viewing. (The West Coast loses out this time!)

As with an eclipse, don't look directly at the Sun; I'm going to try projecting
the image with binoculars.

Give it a shot, it doesn't happen often. In fact, its only been observed 5
times before, last time was 1882. The next one is in 2012, but after that we
wait over 100 years.

http://www.transitofvenus.org/faq.htm



Why would you want to go to all that trouble to see a tiny dot on the
sun? There are lots of exciting things to see out there, but why watch a
dot?

Jim

Transit of Venus
 

It's more interesting that watching an idiot trying to sail a Mac. Well,
maybe not.

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"Jim Cate" wrote in message
...


Jeff Morris wrote:

Don't forget to check out the Transit of Venus across the Sun in about
10 hours.
Observers on the US East Coast will be in "mid transit" at sunrise and
will have
about 2 hours of viewing. (The West Coast loses out this time!)

As with an eclipse, don't look directly at the Sun; I'm going to try
projecting
the image with binoculars.

Give it a shot, it doesn't happen often. In fact, its only been
observed 5
times before, last time was 1882. The next one is in 2012, but after
that we
wait over 100 years.

http://www.transitofvenus.org/faq.htm



Why would you want to go to all that trouble to see a tiny dot on the
sun? There are lots of exciting things to see out there, but why watch a
dot?

Jim

Transit of Venus
 

OzOne wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:31:30 -0500, Jim Cate
scribbled thusly:


Why would you want to go to all that trouble to see a tiny dot on the
sun? There are lots of exciting things to see out there, but why watch a
dot?

Jim


Why do you bother to stay alive if nothing is of interest?


You twisted what I said, of course, which is that there are LOTS OF
EXCITING THINGS to see out there now. - Omega Centuri, M-13, the
Sagitarius and Virgo constellations, Andromena, and the Beehive cluster,
to name a few. Look toward Virgo and you can see over six galaxies in
the eyepiece, in one view. All over 30 million light years away.

Jim
Look to

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Transit of Venus
 

I'm not sure why you think some astronomical sights are inherently exciting and
others are not. The transit, while admittedly just a little dot on the Sun, is
a fascinating event that will only come twice in our lifetime, and then only
briefly. It has a history of considerable interest to both sailors and
astronomers.

The objects you mention are just that: objects that have been there all my life
and will continue to be there long after I'm gone. I can view them (almost) any
time I desire, or I can look at a much better picture in a book. Somehow,
events in our own Solar System seem to have more meaning. I admit I enjoy
"rediscovering" Andromeda Galaxy, but frankly, I get more of a rush from seeing
the moons of Jupiter.

BTW, the most exciting astronomical object I've seen was a tiny dot on a screen,
caused by three x-ray photons detected improbably close together in a "deep sky"
observation by the Einstein Observatory in 1979. For an hour or so, I was the
only human that knew of the existence of this galaxy, which turned out to be the
furthest away (or oldest) ever found. Until of course, someone found one
further out.




"Jim Cate" wrote in message
...


OzOne wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:31:30 -0500, Jim Cate
scribbled thusly:


Why would you want to go to all that trouble to see a tiny dot on the
sun? There are lots of exciting things to see out there, but why watch a
dot?

Jim


Why do you bother to stay alive if nothing is of interest?


You twisted what I said, of course, which is that there are LOTS OF
EXCITING THINGS to see out there now. - Omega Centuri, M-13, the
Sagitarius and Virgo constellations, Andromena, and the Beehive cluster,
to name a few. Look toward Virgo and you can see over six galaxies in
the eyepiece, in one view. All over 30 million light years away.

Jim
Look to

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Transit of Venus
 

"Jim Cate" wrote in message
| You twisted what I said, of course, which is that there are LOTS OF
| EXCITING THINGS to see out there now. - Omega Centuri, M-13, the
| Sagitarius and Virgo constellations, Andromena, and the Beehive cluster,
| to name a few. Look toward Virgo and you can see over six galaxies in
| the eyepiece, in one view. All over 30 million light years away.

Well said Bob!

How's your scope holding up?

;-)

CM