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Check out Venus

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Charlatan, Jun 5, 2012.

  1. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Charlatan, Jun 5, 2012
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  2. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    So that's what the Police were singing about all those years ago...

     
    Plan9, Jun 5, 2012
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  3. Freetofly

    Freetofly Diving deep into the abyss

    Location:
    From Philly USA, living in London UK
    Freetofly, Jun 5, 2012
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  4. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Very cool.

    For some reason, my faulty memory of the solar system switches Mars and Venus, and so I always forget the latter is actually closer to the sun.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Jun 5, 2012
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  5. Freetofly

    Freetofly Diving deep into the abyss

    Location:
    From Philly USA, living in London UK
    Love the solar system.

    I have an app that you can aim at the sky anywhere and it will show you what stars and constellations you are seeing.
     
    Freetofly, Jun 5, 2012
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  6. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    A screencap of the Venus Transit on 5 June, 2012. This was done at 1905 PST from the NASA site that had (has as of this very minute) the live streaming webcam of the transit from the top of Mount Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
    [​IMG]
     
    Speed_Gibson, Jun 5, 2012
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  7. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    I've been told that it was during a transit of Venus in the past that Halley (the comet guy) used the transit to figure out the distances between all of the planets in our solar system (something that was first suggested by Keppler but for which we didn't have the values for distances).

    If that makes sense.

    Regardless, I think stuff like this is cool.
     
    Charlatan, Jun 6, 2012
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  8. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

    Location:
    Where you least expect me
    Watched it through the telescope, very cool thing to see... I'll be 158 when the next one comes around....
     
    SirLance, Jun 6, 2012
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  9. SuburbanZombie

    SuburbanZombie Housebroken

    Location:
    Northeast
    It always seems to be cloudy/raining here when there is some celestial event of note lately.
     
    SuburbanZombie, Jun 8, 2012
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