Venus transit is NOW!!

[gymell]

My hastily set up transit scope (consisting of a camera tripod, a music stand, binoculars, duct tape and cardboard):

Results are pretty good. I invited the neighbor kids to come over and see it, they thought it was cool!

[maegs]

I went to a talk at the planetarium at my university, then they had a viewing where they had a 30 cm telescope set up. I got to see it when Venus was part-way onto the sun and still had the atmosphere halo effect going on. Several people also brought set-ups like yours, and the planetarium/viewing was handing out glasses that didn't magnify anything but had foil lenses so you could look right at the sun (Venus was reeeaally tiny).

[Sea Level]

My hastily set up transit scope (consisting of a camera tripod, a music stand, binoculars, duct tape and cardboard):

Results are pretty good. I invited the neighbor kids to come over and see it, they thought it was cool!

Wow! Nice shot! I didn't know if one could see it without a big telescope, but yes, you can!

I saw this video that NASA took. Amazing!

[slcathena]

For those of you, like me, who can't see it b/c of weather or time of day, NASA has a live feed.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[Oogiem]

Some pictures we took during the transit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26001709@N03/sets/72157630062406108/

[gymell]

You got some nice clear shots of it!

[oystergirl]

Welcome goddess! I love that this happened and is so rare many generations will go by before it is seen again...that is wicked rocking cool!