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

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Jim Cate" wrote in message
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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