Tuesday, June 05, 2012

[zvovltnw] Transit of Venus websites

A few websites about the transit of Venus, as the weather looks to be cloudy here.

  • NASA broadcast from Mauna Kea, Hawaii
  • Many telescopes at The National Solar Observatory (NSO), including huge McMath-Pierce solar telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ (though I think that one will be doing spectroscopy).
  • The NSO has a Youtube channel
  • The SOHO satellite (a space telescope dedicated for viewing the sun, unlike the Hubble space telescope, which will fry if pointed at the sun). From the satellite's point of view (halo orbit around the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange point), Venus will NOT pass in front of the sun. However, because the sky is black in space, Venus is visible as it approaches the sun.

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