Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Amazing Celestial Events


We have had a tremendous sequence of sky watching this past month.  Most recently was the transit of Venus across the Sun, as seen in the attached photo from NASA. We had a stellar clear day for viewing.

We used welders goggles with a combination of lenses to total a #14 which provided a very clear image of the transit.

Our little town of Langlois, Oregon was also in the prime path for the annular solar eclipse.

Once again we had tremendous viewing conditions, with clouds racing past so you could view without goggles.  The view was similar to this image.  We live in such an amazing world!




1 comment:

Emily Ruoss said...

amazing indeed. I was sorry to have missed the eclipse, but enjoyed watching the the transit!
hope all is well with you both.

sending big hugs and lots of love!!