Anybody see anything yet?
The news said that you can use a welding helmet with at least a #12 lens. I gave it a shot, but couldn't see anything definitive.
Anybody see anything yet?
The news said that you can use a welding helmet with at least a #12 lens. I gave it a shot, but couldn't see anything definitive.
I have a welding helmet. The clouds are scattered. Will report from home in ~1 hour.
I tried to get a shot with my camera through a welding lens, but the clouds were uncooperative.
MY EYES!!!!!!!
Oh well, the Sun has set. I guess I'll have to try again in 105 years.
Not a #12. A #14 is recommended from what I have read.
The transition is not supposed to happen until 6:30 on the west coast. I am setting up some binoculars with cardboard.
It seems pretty unlikely you could even see it without some sort of magnification.
Website is probably hosed at this point: http://www.transitofvenus.org/
Was just about to post this. I can see it totally well through a welding helmet. It's at about 1:00 high on the disc of the sun for us northern hemisphere types (i.e. 180 deg. rotated from the pic Woody posted.) It'll be visible for another 5h or so.
If you don't see it immediately, keep staring (through your welding mask!!) until your vision dims enough. It's there. Don't even think of using binoculars or a telescope though; that would melt your retinas instantly.
I have rather sharp eyesight, and I can clearly see the disc of Venus through my naked eye, rather than just a point. Very cool.
What's all this I hear about the transit of Venus...
Jay wrote: Was just about to post this. I can see it totally well through a welding helmet. It's at about 1:00 high on the disc of the sun for us northern hemisphere types (i.e. 180 deg. rotated from the pic Woody posted.) It'll be visible for another 5h or so. If you don't see it immediately, keep staring (through your welding mask!!) until your vision dims enough. It's there. Don't even *think* of using binoculars or a telescope though; that would melt your retinas instantly. I have rather sharp eyesight, and I can clearly see the disc of Venus through my naked eye, rather than just a point. Very cool.
The Binocular's/Telescope with cardboard means, you aim the optics at the sun, and use a piece of cardboard to reflect the image so that you can see it. Safely.
No melting of the retinas involved.
http://events.slooh.com/
good feed
RX Reven' wrote: What's all this I hear about the transit of Venus...
Oh. Never mind.
My Meade NG-70SM, 25mm eyepiece, 90deg fitting to put it on the ceiling.
The surface, from Venera 13 (1982):
In color:
One of the dads at my son's baseball game tonight had a pair of binoculars with some kind of coated Mylar over the lenses, and everyone took turns looking at it. Pretty cool.
Welding helmet worked perfect! Got to see it change positions over a few hours, too! Tried to take pics, need to download.
Tried to watch it with a pinhole projector, but the clouds were in the way here in Atlanta. Had to settle for watching a live webcast.
Yesterday's transit..from some folks with better telescopes than mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Z9rM8ChTjY
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