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Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time Until 2117

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vcg1234 7 June 5
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I still have my Halleyscope somewhere. I used it once to photograph Jupiter's moons so I could plot their orbits. It was a Galilean thing to do...

wdwyer Level 5 June 6, 2018
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I was on Mauna Kea at the IRTF on the NASA EDGE webcast. We webcast the entire transit. It was very exciting!!

AstroLou Level 5 June 5, 2018
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I had just started working at Adler Planetarium. I was spoiled - Venus Transit, Curiosity landing on Mars, Sally Ride memorial, Mercury visible with naked eye, Venus and Jupiter seen near each other in sky, annular solar eclipse. And I worked at Adler! ?

vcg1234 Level 7 June 5, 2018
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It was cloudy, so I watched the transit on a webcast. I tried to interest my toddler, but that didn't work so well lol

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I think I moved to another house in the same town.

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And what news about Mars over the summer? Anyone planning a Mars safari?

NASA announcement on Thursday...

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A transit event provides an opportunity to do a little science, mainly on the Venusian atmosphere. Although a rare event, it isn't particularly phenomenal because it just one of relative positioning. Six years ago I was changing faculty jobs, moving from Florida to Texas. I would love to be around for the next transit though. More realistically, I shooting for Halley's comet's next visit even though that's a bit of a stretch unless I can do a transhumanistic shift.

wdwyer Level 5 June 5, 2018

A little tune about Halley’s last 2 visits. It should be posted elsewhere but I think it’s ok here.

@Markus Music is always welcome in this group!
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