/sci/ - Science & Math

When will it become visible in Chicago?

OP here, I posted the visibility map from the WSJ article earlier today, so a duplicate cant be attached, but check it out to see when you can see it in your respective lands.

>>4751285
it should be visible around 5:45pm, but its essentially whenever sunset begins to occur. Also unless you have some special shades to look at the sun with you may have some trouble staring directly at the sun.

>>4751304
sorry. 5:45pm was for EDT. what does that translate to in CHI time?

>>4751310
Isn't 5:45 EDT right now?

>>4751316
The broadcast has started, but the transit hasn't begun yet.

>>4751304
I've got binoculars and a piece of printer paper.
I'm set.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasaedge

>>4751323
Dude, what if Newton was wrong and Venus isn't where it's supposed to be?!

>that feel when you have to walk for an hour in the early morning to get to a hill with a decent view of the sunrise

>>4751285
Chicago is 5:07, im about to leave to view it at Lerner park in Chicago, in you're in the area come on by, im bringing my telescope +solar filter

You can also project the image of the sun on a piece of paper, using a pair of binoculars.
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>>4751353
I'm actually nearer to Rockford. I just say Chicago because, well, you know.

HAHA TIME FOR FUCKING CLOUDS EVERYWHERE

SERIOUSLY
GO FUCK YOURSELF WEATHER
IT'S BEEN CLOUDY FOR THE PAST FUCKING MONTH NON-STOP, WITH RAIN ALMOST EVERY OTHER DAY. WHY DON'T YOU JUST FUCKING LET ME SEE THIS.

FUCK YOU.

So, where is it?

>>4751363
Starts in 5 minutes it seems

This will be the only party worthy Venusian transit. In the past, no one could stream it online. In the future, people will be living in space so what stuff looks like on Earth won't be that big of a deal.

You were born just in time to. Crack a beer.

>>4751356
>WOW_ITSFUCKINGNOTHING.BITMAP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ3MSa0Yzo&hd=1

get your shit ready

>>4751362

>>4751356
That's what I'm doing. Tested it a few days ago. I saw sunspots directly for the first time in my life.
>MFW

>Chicago
>63F
>not a cloud in the sky
>happy as fuck

You can also view the transit using Celestia. :3
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stream dead

Is it still happening guys?
Can I go outside right now and see this?

>>4751394
>Can I go outside right now and see this?

NO. YOU WILL BURN YOUR EYES OUT.

>>4751390

FML

http://venustransit.nasa.gov/webcasts/norway/

Works, bottom left corner

Will the transit of venus bring along colder temperatures as some of the sunlight won't reach earth?

>>4751402

No, Venus is blocking a negligible amount of the sun's light.

>>4751388
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>>4751401
Reverby norwegians.

Its kind of funny.

/sci/ has Chicago bros, who knew?

Nice to see NASA is now resorted to putting on shitty live streams of pointless planetary events, rather than launching satellites, rovers or people into space.

>>4751401
+
>>4751382
= Hooooly shit

So what am i looking for?

>>4751420
>implying it costs them a significant portion of their budget to do this
>implying this doesn't raise awareness and interest in space among children and teenagers, who might conceivably one day decide to work for NASA

> 20 posts and 4 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

This is fucking PATHETIC for a Science board. Nobody to blame but the human species, I guess.

I'm seeing a big white globe in norwey transmission

that's it?

>>4751421
indeed

>>4751428
Bottom left of the globe (sun) there's a black blob emerging, that's Venus-

>>4751427
everyones too busy shitposting on /v/ about E3

>>4751427
>implying most everyone isn't too busy watching to post

?

>NASA production values

YGSIU

>>4751441
what'd you expect? a full eclipse?

>>4751435
pics or it didn't happen

>>4751435

that tiny little thing/

wow

I came when first contact was made on hawaiian stream.

Oh god.

This is where Venus is located for reference.

cloudy as shit right now

fuck my life

>>4751388
I can't work Celestia out, how do you make venus go over there? For me it's fucking far away.

I swear this lady is going to orgasm if there's a flare tonight.

>>4751435
this thing?

I have it dialed in on my scope. Too bad I don't have a camera to hook it up to.

VESUN

>>4751445

>>4751452

Yes

>>4751445
>>4751452
Yeah.

>>4751448
See above

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/venus_transit/index.html

the stream that was on ustream can be watched here

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/venus-transit-from-keck-observatory

did i miss it?

Hop on the cali stream

>That feel when AstoChick gets a boner about the duration of rotation of Venus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlDdGKP_tmw
Very fitting music by Benn Jordan, from the album Pale Blue Dot

>>4751411
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its fucking cloudy in NY and i even made an apparatus to take pictures of this shit.

These are the most pathetic people I have ever heard in my entire life. Is Hawaii so boring that a Venus eclipse sends these people into hysterics?

can i see it with the naked eye?

>>4751474
It's space. you could take a nap and not miss it

>>4751479
cloudy in Phila. too, only visible online.
>>4751475
Ha i heard her prattle about that. still pretty cool though.

>>4751459

Navigation>Go_to_object>Earth>(your latitude and longitude)>distance_0.002km

Enter+"Venus"+Enter
C
T

Two versions of Hell in one picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkkOH6eWPSc&hd=1

diff variation on the Sunshine soundtrack

pic related live from nasa twitter feed, beautiful

>>4751480
>These are the most pathetic people I have ever heard in my entire life. Is Hawaii so boring that a Venus eclipse sends these people into hysterics?

These are astronomers, fuckwit.
Everything is exciting to astronomers.

>>4751481
sure if you dont like your eyes

>>4751482

oh really? i had no idea.

The stream in OP's link is back up.

The announcer guy said they had a black out but the problem is resolved and to tell our friends it's back up..

So I'm telling you guys, cause you're my friends

The whole wenus!

how is the sun visible in norway? it's half past midnight there

>god

THERE IS A TINY BREAK IN THE CLOUDS FORMING NORTHEAST OF ME

IT IS MOVING SOUTHWEST
IT ISN'T OVER YET FOR ME
WISH ME LUCK

>>4751508
The stream is from close to the northern tip, sun's up 24/7 that far north.

>>4751491
Thanks a lot

>>4751495
very nice!

>>4751508
North Norway, sun rises earlier

>>4751356
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>>4751508

i think there some parts of norway that are so far north the sun doesnt set or at leat doesnt set for very long

She's so fucking beautiful, guys. I love you all so much right now. I fucking love you guys.

SQUEEEEE
SECOND CONTACT

Second contact is best contact.

I see a big red circle and a small black one inside it. I guess it's the sun and venus respetively?

>Anything going on with the sun right now?

It's shining?

>>4751533

yup

>>4751533
yup. thats it.

Not to sound cynical, but Venus is sure taking its sweet time

I can barely see the sun 'cause it's so fucking cloudy. Fuck you, Miami.

>>4751538
see
>>4751482

>>4751512
yeah same for me in ny. im making sure my cams batteries are charged
i dont even know if my layered cake of filters will work
it fuckin better

ok... i got celestia... went to the sun...see nothing
wut do?

>>4751545

Navigation>Go_to_object>Earth>(your latitude and longitude)>distance_0.002km

Enter+"Venus"+Enter
C
T

>tfw clouds

It's cool to see the stream but I would like to observe it directly

>>4751512
COME ON

GET OVER HERE

sweet. my thread got stickied.

signed OP

>>4751550
Congratulations! This thread is now official thread, I guess.

Latest from APOD.

Is there going to be anything beyond what we're seeing now?

Portland is sunny for once, after being completely overcast for the lunar eclipse

So if I watch the NASA feed I'll see it? Or is it the black dot on there?

Sorry I just found out about this and have no idea what is going on

Clouds are clearing up! Time to burn out my retinas.

>>4751558
someone took a bite out of the cheese

>>4751569
Off to sleep then, not hardcore enough to watch a black circle slowly move from one side to the other in a red circle

OH God..
I'm literally crying and shaking right now.
I'm looking at it right now. It's beautiful.

>>4751560
Well, it'll move slowly across, and that's about it. If we're really lucky there'll be a flare and we'll hear that woman on the stream cream her pants.

>>4751508

Midnight sun.

>>4751556
read the WSJ article from the original post to find out more. I only found out about it this morning.

>>4751578
fucking casual

When will britfags be able to see it?

>>4751578

You will be drepressed for the rest of your life if you don't see the entire passage.

>>4751587
come sunrise

>>4751592
I'll invent something to make sure I'm around for the next one if that's the case
Maybe I can see it in the morning for real rather than on a stream as well

>>4751562
>the lunar eclipse

Oh hey! I almost forgot. I took pictures of that. It was setting, at the time.
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>>4751587

sunrise so like 5:30am

>>4751587

At sunrise.

>>4751603

More like 4:45AM.

Guys!!
I've been googling this for hours, what time is venus supposed to transit the moon?
I don't even see the moon in the sky yet

Thread music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpfAoiXzgc

>>4751587
theres a general visibility map in the second link op posted. Its like the third image down.

>>4751587
Yes, just about, in the early morning.

I've got a test in the morning so I'm going to bed. Watched it enter first and second contact.

This was beautiful. I love you, guys.

>>4751478
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>>4751621

>South America

Hey, are there any anons from Iceland online right now?
>>4751621 suggests they'll have a *very* interesting experience today.

I fucking love this. Venus looks so sexy on the sun.

I also admire the NASA EDGE broadcasters, as a plebeian I love their humane approach.

This looks riveting!

Actually, who cares if the next time we will be able to see a black dot moving in front of the sun is in 2117? Rare != interesting

Hey, are there any anons from Iceland online right now?
>>4751621 suggests they'll have a *very* interesting experience today.

Hi, sis. <3

Hey, are there any anons from Iceland online right now?
>>4751621 suggests they'll have a *very* interesting experience today.

>>4751634
>>4751634
the fuck>

>>4751634
>NRK1
That's pretty badass of them to show that on tv. Doubt there's anything about this on Swedish tv right now.

Tonight's the night

So this is nice and all, but I've been watching a black dot transition a red sun for a bit, not to complain but is there a way to get a different view like
>>4751495
>>4751492
or something guys?

>>4751621
lol. Suck it, Brazil.
You too, Equatorial Guinea.

>>4751648
Try some of the other streams on the google map underneath the nasa.gov stream.

Different broadcasters etc.

>Mfw astronomers are getting paid to watch this.

>Mfw I have no face.

>>4751636

they miss the middle of it?

>But tonight the Sun is not the biggest star of the evening.

>this host

>>4751648

>isn't able to enjoy a small black dot moving across a large orange dot for 6 hours

Pleb.

If you have a telescope, a bottle, and a piece of paper, you can make this little setup. Works quite well.

>>4751652
Thanks bro.

better quali than Nasa stream if anyone cares, Mauna kea

http://venustransit.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/


Watch some Carl Sagan if you find it hard to comprehend the beauty and grandiose size of these heavenly bodies

http://www.richannel.org/christmas-lectures/1977/1977-carl-sagan

>>4751661
... but then I have to go outside...

>>4751661
wouldn't an opaque bottle work best?

>>4751661
I apologize for it being off-center, but a good demonstration none the less. It gives a much crisper image when seen in person.

So if I'm a Britfag can I get up at 5:30am and watch it with my naked eye? I don't have binoculars or a telescope/filters. Will it just look like the sun?

>>4751676
Then how would you look through to see the projection? Yes, you can view it on the other side of the paper, but when you look through the bottle it gives a much better image.

>tfw 19
>tfw it should be possible for me to be alive in 105 years

Watching from Northern Michigan. Venus on the top-right of the sun moving downwards slowly.

Fuck yeah, Venus!

Give this link a go for other wavelength views.

http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/

>go away for 10 mins
>planet goes from bottom left to top right
Did they fuck with the camera or did it really just go by that fast

>>4751680
Flipped the camera.

>>4751672

GRORIOUS

>>4751659
>they miss the middle of it?

It's a sunrise AND sunset, BOTH occurring during Venus tranist.

I'm enjoying the live stream of this. No reason to risk eye damage when I prefer nighttime celestial observations anyway.

How does this effect my star sign (Taurus)?

>>4751680
Flipped the camera.

>>4751693

huehueuhehue

>>4751687
>>4751694
thanks guys

>they just fuckin flipped it again
These niggers

Well, I'm fucked...

>>4751680
Yeah, they changed the orientation of the second telescope's image to match the two views.

>>4751685
I was thinking you could cut a small hole in the neck to peer through

>>4751683
I'd be 126 years old. We can only hope.

Just snapped this picture using a digital camera and some old fujifilm.

>>4751693
Kill yourself.

HOLY SHIT A TALKING DOG

Just spent the last 2 hours setting up and watching it unfold. Nice. I'm not too into these kinds of things but it's an experience. Did the whole projection thing with my telescope in my front yard. A couple people came over to see what I was up to and were mildly impressed. There is some interest out there.

>>4751683
>tfw medical science has increased human lifespan into the 120s
>tfw we could very well see the next transit at age 124

Feels good being young in an age of rapid scientific development.

>>4751699
So far I've missed out on 3 interesting astronomical events in the past two weeks.

What the fuck Washington?!

>>4751704
>digital camera
>fujifilm
what

>>4751707
I can't wait to tell the young whippersnappers that they should've seen it back in 2012, when I looked at it through a series of pipes, called the interwebs.

>>4751713
film as a filter.

>>4751713
He's using the film as a makeshift solar lens.
I've read about that. It actually works. I never bothered making one. Regretting that now.

>tfw

>>4751704
Nice.

>>4751691

like i said, they miss part of it. i suppose that's amusing on some level?

>>4751277
Went to the park with some shitty binoculars to project the image. It was small, but we got it. Thinking of using a poptarts wrapper to take some pics with my phone, but I don't think it will work.

>>4751722
Sunrises and sunsets are pretty. The middle of a Venus transit, between contacts, is boring. What part of this are you having trouble with?

>>4751704

thats pretty sweet. how many layers of film did you use?

>>4751713
I've got a Nikon Coolpix digital camera with 15x optical zoom. I took some old film and covered the lens, adding massive amounts of tint. Point and shoot.

Just saw it through binocular projection.

Today, was a glorious day.

>>4751727
Just one.

FUCKING. CLOUDS.
FUCK.

>>4751725

you can enjoy a sunrise and sunset everyday bro. nobodies watching it to see the sun disappear and reappear.

For some reason I can't see Venus in the projected image, using my binoculars.

What's going on?

>>4751738
you live in an atlernate universe

>>4751733
>>4751727
This is what two layers looked like. The camera wouldn't auto-focus.

>>4751742
forgot picture

>>4751277
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>>4751277

> Last chance at seeing this in your lifetime - next transit occurs in 2117.
>last time
>lifetime
>2117
>mfw transhuman immortality

Really bummed that it's cloudy here in NJ, was looking forward to using my telescope with a solar filter.

It seems like the past couple of years we will have weeks of sunshine and then on the eve of any kind of interesting astronomical event is the first of many days of shitty weather.

>>4751738
You have to hold it very, VERY still. It's not going to be huge man, just a tiny dot on the paper.

>>4751737
Lemme put it this way.

In a sense, every sunrise and sunset is a point of contact in a transit of the earth across the sun, from the perspective of a human on the earth's surface.

So in a way, viewing a transit during a sunrise or sunset is a bit like a double transit. Both during the same transit, therefore, is analogous to a triple transit.

(And yes, I'm aware that it's technically an "occlusion" and not a "transit" if the nearer object is apparently larger than the farther.)

>tfw short

>>4751748
>You have to hold it very, VERY still.

:/
I'm totally holding it still.
I'm seeing a bright disc about a centimeter across, which I assume is the sun, but no dot.

>>4751749
>an "occlusion"

*occultation, sorry

>>4751753
Try focusing the lens...

>tfw finally seeing a consistent bulge on the static on the edge of the solar disk

So... It's a fucking dot? What's the big deal?

>>4751760

Fucking plebeian casual why are you even here?

It's the fucking planet. Our sister Venus.

>>4751753

No venus for u bro

>>4751760
Get the fuck out, faggot.

WTF is your angle OP...this is what we all got from Europe...:/

>>4751749

im from iceland and fuck you.

>>4751769

My feed is a black and white and Venus is on the lower left.

>>4751765
Yeah, cool, it's a planet and what have you. Coolies, there's a planet moving between us and the sun. But why do people give a fuck about bad weather? Just watch it on a livestream. What's everybody missing?

>>4751735
Same, clouds here. They need to get the fuck out of the way quick.

>>4751760
get out

NY bros when is it gonna be there for us?

>>4751760

Mean radius: 6,051.8 km

>Dot
>LOLcomeagain

Holy fuck this journalist is effing hot!

>>4751767
Really? Are you actually from Iceland?

>>4751771

Weird...hope everyone gets to see this

>>4751779
If you really need an answer to that question...

>>4751769
Go here

http://www.sunaeon.com/venustransit/

Click on the little map on the right hand side, Fuck around with the pointer, and watch in amazement as the location of Venus's transit changes depending on where you live. It's SCIENCE!

>>4751780

That's nice, but I actually understand how perspective works.

>>4751773
dont know bro, still waiting for the clouds to clear up.

http://events.slooh.com/ has a bunch of different feeds. Some are quite nice. I especially like seeing angular differences in Venus' location between different observatories across the world.

>>4751757
>Try focusing the lens...

:(
It's still just a bright disc.
I'm worried that I'm not actually projecting the sun, and that I'm just projecting the sky; and the edge of the disc is just the edge of the view.

>>4751350
Same here, but there will be a special telescope set up :3

There are literally clouds fucking everywhere here (southeastern PA). Fuck this. I'm obviously going to miss it. Sun's already almost below treeline... and idek how to look at it anyway, all I have are binoculars.

Some birds just flew in front of the broadcast....

Just two and a half hours left till sunrise! Got my binoculars ready!

Here's the link
http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/index.html

>>4751650

>tfw i'm brazilian.

will I see this from toronto

>>4751796
So stop pointing it at the Sun and point it at another piece of sky. If there is no bright disk then you know you were projecting the Sun before. If your focusing mechanism isn't fine enough then you might be skipping over the proper focus.

>>4751817

Ech. I think it might just be a really shitty pair of binoculars. It looks like it was made in the 1980s. I wish I could find my dad's golfing binoculars. They seem like they might be newer and of better quality.

This reminds me of a breast with a birthmark.

are you seriously guys telling me I cannot have a glimpse at the sun when it rises in two hours? For 2 seconds at a time for the first few minutes?

I don't have the glasses, but binoculars and if I'm gonna go I cannot help myself to look at the Sun.

>>4751814
Yes. Don't hurt your eyes though! Look through a filter.

>>4751827

Enjoy blindness or at the very least pain in your eyes.

>>4751820
Mine are about that old. What are their specs? Mine are 7x36 and they work fine.

HEYYYYYYY
A FLARE

I wonder if that one girl is having an orgasm now.

FLARE

>>4751831
fuck that guy. show em who's boss, anon. Sight is for peasants. Blind pride!

I'm actually pretty surprised I got a picture this good with a point'n'shoot with cheapo solar glasses held over it.

>>4751837
>>4751836


OH FUCK WHAT?!

FUCK YOU NRK I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS COMMIE! SWITCH BACK TO THE STREAM OF THE SUN!

>want to do important things
>end up watching a black dot moving across a red dot

HOLY SHIT I CAN SEE BLUE SKY

THERE ARE ONLY CRACKS BUT THAT'S ALL I WOULD NEED, I CAN AT LEAST GET A DIM PICTURE OF THE SUN THROUGH MY SOLAR TELESCOPE THROUGH THE CLOUD EDGES

PLEASE CLOUDS, WORK YOUR WAY WEST AWAY FROM ME, THEN I CAN SEE THE SUN!

>>4751836
haha i thought the same thing. She's going to go fuck the nearest guy so she can say she had a seed planted in her today.

apparently this image of the sun updates every 15min. Pretty cool

Korea here, clouds.
'_'

>>4751843
most days of the year I hide from the sun, in fact I usually flat out sleep through the day so as to avoid it. but the ONE FUCKING DAY I would like to see the sun there is so much cloud cover that it went from 80 yesterday to fucking 55 today.


fuck you weather.

>>4751849
forgot the image link. Mah bad. Its a live image that refreshes every 15.
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/mov/depot/APOD/latest_APOD_HMIC_FR.jpg

got this with a cheap telescope, a cheap piece of paper, and a cheap camera.

>>4751855

That's beautiful man.

Where I live in Florida has been in perpetual cloud cover, and it shows no sign of improving.
Fuck you, sky.

>>4751835
>Mine are about that old. What are their specs?

I don't know. It's a gigantic fucking thing. I still can't get it to focus. Good thing we've got this live feed. And I've got Celestia, too.

>>4751863
florida bro here, I know that feel.

>>4751831
>Enjoy blindness or at the very least pain in your eyes.

There would be no pain in his eyes. If he looked through the binoculars, he would go completely blind within seconds.

When's it going to pass back through the outer edge of the sun?
I don't want to miss that, wasn't able to see the entry.

I saw it through a binocular project.

Shit was UNBELIEVABLY cash.

I felt like a young kid again getting some random makeshift contraption I found on the internet to work.

>missed the entry alongside with 100k viewers due to nasa stream crash

stay classy Nasa, 2nd contact was cool enough though

>>4751876
*Projection, forgot the rest of the damn word.

>>4751876
:/
Wish I could get my binoculars to project it properly.

Oh well, the live feed's cool too I guess.

It's such a small projection that I can't help but feel like I'm actually just looking at a speck of dirt on the viewing lense of my telescope...

>>4751884
It's cloudy as fuck where I am.
Feel lucky you even have the opportunity to see it personally, man.

>>4751888

I can't even see the dot, dude. It's just a white disc. That's how bad the focus is. There might as well be 100 percent cloud cover, for all I can see.

Comparing simple physics to the Moon landing and Polio Vaccine? Stay classy, NASA!

Holy fuck a Gaga music number now?

What the hell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_1639

Imagine if you and your pal were the only people to see it.

OP here.
Mother nature is a fucking cruel bitch - clouds in the Philadelphia area finally start to clear out and the sun is below the treeline by my house.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little moon? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Planet Transit U, and I’ve been involved in numerous transits across the Sun, and I have 0 confirmed life. I am trained in acid rain and I’m the top gas planet in the entire Milkyway. You are nothing to me but just another moon. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in space, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of asteroids across the galaxy and your Planetary IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the ice storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your orbit. You’re fucking dead, pluto. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can transit in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my barren surface. Not only am I extensively trained in evaporating oceans, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my neighbor Earth and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable surface off the orbit of whatever planet owns you, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking atmosphere. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will flare fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, pluto.

>>4751919
i snickered

I took some binoculars and projected the light onto a piece of paper.

>>4751935
I also put on a shitload of sunglasses to look at the sun directly and see the speck of shadow for myself. It was beautiful, but I couldn't snap a picture of that unfortunately (I used my iPhone).

>>4751943
Nigger this is really dumb.

"solar grade" viewing film doesnt just mean "really dark lol"

>>4751943
thats pretty cool. I'm disappointed that I cant even make an attempt myself. CURSE YOU, CLOUDS!!!!

Success! Caught it just as the sun was slipping between the trees. I feel very happy now.

>>4751891
Bitch don't know about my AU calculation!

>>4751955
Hey, man, it worked. And I had plenty of sunglasses there. I'm pretty sure some of them blocked UV and shit so if you're worried about that' I'm in the clear. The sun was literally a dim red circle to me while wearing those babies.


It just didn't work for the camera because I couldn't hold those fucking glasses and my camera and focus it and shit all at the same time.

>>4751972
where are you viewing from? It seems pretty bright.

>>4751919
I'm not familiar with the copypasta that this seems to be based on, but it was comical nonetheless.

>>4751984
I'm in Ontario, Canada. It's late afternoon here. It was about 7:20 when I took that picture.

The photo makes it seem like the light through the glasses was bright because the camera is shit. But I shit you not once I put them on, I could see nothing but the a very dim red circle in the pitch black sky, and a small tiny round speck on the top right of it (Venus).
It literally looked like this to me >>4751745
but I could see it much clearer through my own eyes.

It really blows my mind that that's probably the last time I'll ever see that kind of image (unless I live till 2117 or whenever the next transit is). It's such a unique and beautiful spectacle. I'm gonna burn that image into my mind.

I've heard no less than 4 people in the past half hour refer to the event as "the eclipse". One said it was Jupiter, another didn't care to look because they'd 'seen eclipses before'.

Am...am I in an exceptionally stupid area? Or has anyone else had to deal with this today?

>dis ginger niggas voice on the NASA stream

>>4752011

Holy shit.

>>4752011
no... no you are not.
it is the same here. it is unfortunate.

>>4752011
I think it's BECAUSE of stupid people that some people refer to it as an eclipse. I think just calling it a "transit" some people wouldn't even know what the hell that means, but they've heard of an eclipse before. They think eclipse means something passing in front of the sun. They don't know that the literal meaning of eclipse is to fully cover the sun and block a majority of its light.

To eclipse=to overshadow

and they don't think of that, they think

to eclipse=to pass over the sun.


But maybe I'm giving too much benefit of the doubt. Maybe they really are stupid and don't know the difference between transits and eclipses and they weren't the ones pandering to stupid people.

As for those lazy fucks, I'm sorry to say, they're practically everywhere. I had some friends I invited out with me to come see the transit but they were like nahhh I don't care. Fuck that boils my blood. Seriously do they not understand the significance or the sheer awesomeness of it?

Fuck normal people man. They're fucking stupid. And they're everywhere.

>cloudy sky

>>4752032
>>4752022
>>4752017
The sad thing is I don't expect much science literacy from people, just a little, and it's hard to find that even. Is it too hard to ask people to know the meaning of words in the language they speak? Is it asking too much to at least know what planet is doing what if something's going on, since it's not difficult to pick up on even if you're just watching the news?
Man...they're why we won't get to be transhumans

>>4752011
a guy posted earlier in this thread asking why he couldnt find anything pertaining to venus eclipsing the moon when he googled it.

notsureiftrollingorreallystupid.png

>>4752050
Rustled regardless

>>4751910
Same exact thing just happened to me, also in Philly. Feel your pain, bro.

>solar hat with venus transit being moved on it.

astronomers confirmed for biggest nerd permavirgins in the scientific community

what exactly are the "contacts" (first, second) that the NASA broadcasters are referring to?

woah a small black dot

let me know if it gets good

>mfw I saw it with an 8 inch telescope.

>>4752078
i just came all over your mom.

helioviewer.org

cool shit they just plugged on the nasa stream

I wanna go to bed but I fucking can't!

>>4752078

>>4752068
I... rather like the hat. I kinda wish I had one. Instead I am stuck with a sombrero.

>>4752076
it is when the edges of venus touch the edges of the sun.

>Step outside, see coworker with viewing film.
>Borrow film, snap photo through it.
>Can't see anything on camera screen, probably too bright/blurry/shaky/lightleak/etc
>Return to office, open photo on computer.
>I think I see a faint shadow!

I gotta clean my computer screen...

DUDE YOU COULD HAVE SEEN IT

I JUST SAW IT
LITERALLY LIKE 10 MINUTES BEFORE SUNSET, THERE WERE TWO CLOUDS THAT HAD A GAP BETWEEN THEM

THE SUN POKED THROUGH THESE.

I GOT OUT MY TELESCOPE AS FAST AS I FUCKING COULD AND MANAGED TO GET A VIEW OF THE DOT. IT WAS BLURRY, SINCE I COULDN'T QUITE FOCUS IT PROPERLY SINCE I DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TIME, BUT I COULD CLEARLY SEE A BLURRY, SMALL DOT ON THE SUN. ONLY A FEW SECONDS LATER THOUGH, IT DIPPED BELOW THE CLOUDS. NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN FOR 105 YEARS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

>>4752125
MEANT FOR
>>4751910

I DROVE OUT TO A GODDAMN PARKING LOT AS FAST AS I COULD, DIDN'T CARE WHO THE HELL SAW ME, I NEED MY VENUS.

I was not planning to die before 2117, OP.

Took this one myself with my cell phone through a telescope.

>>4752076
First contact (external ingress): Venus is entirely outside the disk of the Sun, moving inward
Second contact (internal ingress): Venus is entirely inside the disk of the Sun, moving further inward
Third contact (internal egress): Venus is entirely inside the disk of the Sun, moving outward
Fourth contact (external egress): Venus is entirely outside the disk of the Sun, moving outward.

Holy shit, I just realized - from tomorrow, it's never ever gonna be June 6 2012 again until the end of everything ever! Better party like crazy, huh?

>>4751738 here.

I got it to work! I got it to work!
The problem was that I was holding the binoculars too close to the paper.

I took so many pictures! (The sun is now setting behind a tree, from the perspective of my bedroom; so a bunch of leaves are in my way.)

I will upload the best ones in a minute, here.

>>4752136

It's sideways from the orientation i took the photograph through the eyepiece.

>>4752143
thanks, friend.

>>4752150
lolwut.

You're really going to freak out when you realize its never going to be tomorrow, or the day before that, ever again either, buddy.

protip: lay off the drugs when it comes to astronomy; too prone for freakout moments.

But seriously. If chu's disregarding what is going on and just looking at it visually, solar eclipses are prettier.

>>4752153

First, here was my set-up.
The binoculars are elevated by a book, resting on a stool, resting on a small table. The notebook is propped up on top of my camera's tripod.

>Live in Southern tip of Malaysia (just before Singapore)
>Clouds, and it looks like it's going to rain soon

God hate me.

>>4752184

Now, the transit!

>>4752190
Second image.

I wouldn't mind that at all. Being a Hawaiian astronomer, a life devoted to the heavens, spent in the middle of the ocean. That sounds pretty fucking good.

>>4752197
Third image.

venus is relatively the same size as earth.

you are now aware of how miniscule we are on the larger scale of things.

>>4752209~
But at least we are larger than bacteria.

>>4752202
Fourth image.

(By this point, the sun was behind the tree in my front yard; so most of the pictures I took were obscured. This one looks kind of cool.)

Imagine if there were Martian, would they be crazy to see Earth-Sun Transit (if it does happen)?

It got too cloudy here in South Florida to see the transit. However I did snag a picture of the sun before the clouds came in.

Soon, friends. Estonia reporting in, 4:15 am

>>4752213
who invited this guy?

From northern Illinois with love.

I just saw it very clearly in Kitchener, Ontario. 8:30 pm. It was great.

I can die now

I can't see shit.

Clouds.

So you American faggots use nanometers for wavelengths and microliters in biochemistry, but you still use imperial units for any other shit like beer and body height? You guys are freaks. Start measuring wavelength in nano-inches, you fucking communist faggots!

>>4752221
who knew /sci/ was so well traveled?

>>4752237

Hey now. Don't judge us by that fucking retard on the feed. I cringed too, when he didn't know his SI units.

It's 299792458 meters per second.

>>4752166

You know one night i was outside laying on my back looking up at the stars. It was a clear night, could see lots of good shit even the milky way.

It suddenly hit me i was clinging to a rock hurtling through the vastness of space. Had this massive vertigo attack and realised i had a death grip on the tree stump next to me.

The fuck mang.

From Sydney with love

>>4752237
>Americans
>imperial units (english origin)
>communists

this guy can't decide on an insult.

>>4752221
vodka?

>>4752236
they have so thick clouds there, I guess he wont see it

>>4752251
I had the exact opposite experience one time.
Really stoned, looking up at the stars with a friend and recalled how the image that appears are the back of our retinas is upside down and that our brain interprets that image as rightside up.
Start to think about "what ifs" of upside downs and right side ups are really inverted and our brains and sense of balance are just reverse.

Laughing attack. Could barely breathe.
I <3 science

>>4752231
>>4752250

<3
From North Dakota with love (>>4752190, >>4752197, >>4752202, and >>4752216).

>>4752256
I'm not drinking. Yes, Estonians are known for their for alcohol abuse.

FUCK YOU CLOUDS

FUCK

COULDN'T SEE SHIT

>>4752263
>what is brain in a vat

clouds blocking the sun in eastern canada :(

Whatever. I was planning to live past 150, anyway.

In Germany, the sun will rise in two hours and we will have clouded skies, even little rain. Damn, and I was hoping to look at it in the first moment of sunrise with unprotected eyes.

>>4752273
hahaha yes! why didn't i think of that earlier?

>>4752274
wut?

>>4752282
>I was hoping to look at it in the first moment of sunrise with unprotected eyes.

It's not really safe to do that. It seems like it is; but it isn't. It won't blind you *quite* as fast as looking at the noon sun will; but it will still damage your cones and rods, and hasten the onset of vision problems when you get older (if not cause vision problems within hours).

This is what it looks like where I am. It's 3:37 AM and the sun is just rising on the other side of the mountain.

Takes about 10 minutes to get up it, I don't even have binoculars or anything. I have a camera that I'll maybe point through some sunglasses and zoom the fuck out of it, and then zoom once it's on the computer.

Wish me luck chaps.

>>4752286
we'll have clouds anyway ;_;

Southern germany reporting in, seems like I won't be able to see anything.

Any other Britfags or people from the UK staying up to try and catch this?

It's cloudy as fuck but I'm gunna risk it.

>>4752293

I think perhaps "fuckin clouds mang" might be /sci/s first meme for a long while

>>4752297
welshfag here

clouds

Estonia here - witnessed the glorious beauty as the sun became completely visible between two clouds.

>>4752298
scrape together the image /sci/borg

hahahaahahah the guy running for his hat hahahhahahahahahaahha

the NASA stream just went crazy

how much time left?

>>4752310
oh shit is that what he was doing? I thought he was just a crazy dude.

oh god this singing....

>>4752310
Aww shit, I missed it.

>>4752313
Roughly 2 hours and 57 min. until the fourth contact

>Venus day is longer than Venus year

I feel like an idiot for not knowing this fact.

>>4752313
i think they said it takes around 6 hours for the complete transit? I could be wrong. It began around 17:45 EDT, so that would mean around 23:45 EDT

>>4752307
How did you watch it?

>this hippie bitch confusing Venus in the sense of the Greek/Roman goddess with the physical planet.

The hippie lady is really showing of now

>>4752314
it was fun hehe

How can I view this firsthand, do I need a telescope?

>>4752336
see
>>4751327

>>4752340
also, some Canadian guy used like 3 pairs of sunglasses and said it worked for him. posted pics too. look for the image attachment in the thread.

anybody else thinks this japanese guy sounds like christopher Walken?
Or am I just getting stupid staying up, wating for this thing?

>>4752345
That might make it comfortable to view but his eyesight is still in danger.

>>4752348
the cadance at which he's speaking does sound a bit like it.
FUCK. now all i can hear is asian Walken

>2012
>Still don't know much about Venus

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>>4752302
Fellow Welshfag here. Clouds everywhere, looks like it's raining too.

What am I saying, it's a Welsh summer, of course it's raining.

>>4752348
>Chin
>Japanese

Better get your fact right, kisama!!

>>4752351
もっとカウベル！！

>>4752327

I viewed the sun through 2 compact disks.

>that dude in the background taking pictures

>>4752359
sorry, I realized I should have just written asian but a moment too late, after I had posted.

>>4752358
na butt, its been sunny as fuck for like 3 weeks. But then once in a lifetime astro even and then LOL TIEM FOR CLOUDCOVER

Still going on?

>>4752381
at least an hour left

>>4752376
No fucking kidding. Yesterday, clear skies and 90 degrees. Today, cloudy, raining, and 50.

>>4752381
Yes.

>>4752376
What pissed me off today is that my family made me go with my uncle to do some work for him today. He lives about 2 hours away from us, so I had to go alone. All day it's been pouring down rain and storming. Meanwhile my fucking idiot brother was at home getting to watch it.
I don't even think he can name more than 3 planets.

>They Might Be Giants

>Song

Oh boy, here we go.

>them harmonics

I saw a small black dot at sunset. As if the Sun had a mole.

It's sad to say the upcoming newborns won't have a chance to see this.

they might be giants... come on science dude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdWlSF195Y

>>4752401
meh. they'll have their moments that we wont.

>>4752398
A shaky start but decent finish.

7/10

>>4752401~
Life expectancy is increasing.

>mfw it's night time and I forgot about this until just now

My attempt at getting a photo. Don't have a decent camera so I had to use my phone.

>>4752403
and now for this song as a reply to the inaccuracies of the last song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA&feature=relmfu

>>4752412
that dot is obviously just a piece of dust
go back to >>>/x/ niwaka

>>4752412
try adjusting the focus and/or the distance of the lens from the paper.

Can you just point a DSLR at the sun and look via the electronic viewscreen?

>>4751760
It's going to give us more intimate information on Venus itself, as well as an ability to fine-tune our methods of detecting exoplanets. Transits of Venus are historically some pretty heavy shit, and have been used to determine important things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus

Plus, the next one won't be for 105 years. So there is that.

>>4752437
Sure. If you want to burn out the optics in it.

this guy is brutally socially awakard.
the girls are in highschool and college respectively, give it up ginger.

when she says venus orbit I understand only penis orbit.

>>4752436
It looked much better in person. Was able to see it very clearly.

>>4752445
dude, that post was made 3 hours ago. you do know that you can see the time correct? its next to the day of the week in the post info

OMFG he's holding his hand on her back the WHOLE time!!

>>4752453
he tries to score, this is ridiculous, the whole world is watching

Goddamn, 50 min. until sunset and I never once got a glimpse of the sun within these damn clouds.

>>4752445
Sure, in a stickied thread. So there's a chance the person's still in here.

>>4752457
Germany won't see it

Got a pretty good photo.

>>4752456
it hurts so fucking much to watch..

but it makes feel a tiny bit better about all the stupid shit I've done

>>4752453
Didn't notice that. But mein Gott...

>>4752459
i think its safe to assume that a guy who downplayed the event as "just a fucking dot" isn't in the thread anymore.

>>4752289
This is what I got. So surprised and ecstatic that I got anything at all. I even managed to see it with my own eyes by wearing three pairs of sunglasses and looking through the zoom on the camera.

>>4752461
Where at in Germany? Berlin will be able to see about the last 20 min of it.

>>4752472
>>4752289
My "setup", haters gonna hate.

Greetings from Freeport Illinois, home of the Pretzels.

those two chicks should get trips and post here

would be better then those other tripsluts in here

>>4752471
Then it's possible I'm just talking into thin air. Sure am risking a lot by daring to possibly give an answer!

get that redheads name! Cara something. facebook stalking may not be the forte of /sci/guys but damnit shes a science girl!

Rained all day here in Edmonton...

>>4752482
That's fucking awesome!

Mang, I'm gunna get on my roof and sit through clouds :/

I want to practice with my telescope-projector, I shall draw a dot on a flashlight...

Well guys, I'm gonna head out. Even though it's totally clouded, I'm gonna stay out there for the next two hours in case I might get a glimpse of it.
It's been cozy sharing this event with /sci/ and the NASA stream, thanks guys

Wasnt there a Malaysian guy posting earlier in this thread? the stream is talking about Oceania now.

i post the few i took today from Chicago
1/4

>>4752493
Wish you luck, bro.

We had a solid 2-hr period here when it was visible. I pulled out a spotter's scope that found that I could image the sun to about the size of a quarter on a sheet of paper. We got a great view of Venus on the sun's face. It was a clear circle, and I saw a few tiny sunspots. I showed about a dozen people, and all thanked me for it. Nobody minded that the optics were less than good (some lens spots). Two even shook my hand. This is about the only time that science really seems appreciated. I actually don't feel that bad today.

2/4

so may people in the park today came up to me and were so grateful when i let them look through my telescope and when i answered their questions