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Venus passage.
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Venus passage.
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12 yards long, two lanes wide it's 65 tons of American pride, Canyonero! - Simpsons
Support the KKK environmental program - keep the Arctic white!
Re: Venus passage.
I thought Roman candles meant they were imported. - Kelly Bundy
12 yards long, two lanes wide it's 65 tons of American pride, Canyonero! - Simpsons
Support the KKK environmental program - keep the Arctic white!
12 yards long, two lanes wide it's 65 tons of American pride, Canyonero! - Simpsons
Support the KKK environmental program - keep the Arctic white!
Re: Venus passage.
My old friend from college has a telescope so he comes up with the cool idea of everyone going to the park and watching Venus. We're all like YEA COOL. And we do. We get there about when it starts, but there are clouds, just a few. We get set up, and the sun peeks through. Long enough for everyone to get about a ten second view of Venus. Clouds come in again, and there's no break. We wait around anyway, just in case. We chill for two hours, and the park closes. On the way home, the sun comes out again just long enough to blind us as it sets.
The sun be trollin' us.
The sun be trollin' us.
Re: Venus passage.
I made a little pinhole helioscope out of a shoebox and stared at the image of the sun for an hour and a half until it set, but I didn't see Venus 
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Re: Venus passage.
The pre-monsoon clouds decided to hit here today. Think just a massive horizon-to-horizon grey ceiling. Or Britain.
There are quite a few astronomy enthusiasts in India and not to mention the school trips to planetariums I heard were being planned. I feel bad for them.
FUCK YOU, CLIMATE!
There are quite a few astronomy enthusiasts in India and not to mention the school trips to planetariums I heard were being planned. I feel bad for them.
FUCK YOU, CLIMATE!
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies,
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Re: Venus passage.
Took my binoculars out and focused the sun's light through them onto a piece of paper, but I didn't see Venus. It was right when the transit was supposed to be starting, so I figured it was just too early and that I'd check back in a little while. Cue the rain, which fell until after sunset.
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Re: Venus passage.
That's because you made a little pinhole helioscope out of a shoebox. What you need to do is, like I did, make a crude solar filter out of a Pop Tart wrapper. Using it, I saw Venus briefly, after the clouds moved out of the way and before the sun set behind the trees.Surlethe wrote:I made a little pinhole helioscope out of a shoebox and stared at the image of the sun for an hour and a half until it set, but I didn't see Venus
どうして？お前が夜に自身お触れるから。
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but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
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Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
-Aku, Master of Masters, Deliverer of Darkness, Shogun of Sorrow
Re: Venus passage.
It should be noted, though, that using wrappers, old diskettes, and other non sun-rated materials might be harmful for your eyes even if the visible light seems to be greatly reduced, or so the opticians in my country said, at least.
Re: Venus passage.
#12+ Welding glass works fine and is quite cheap on amazon. Ugly green tint though.
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