Transit of Venus: what Earth looks like from Venus during rare sky show [Last for 105 Years]

Space.com via FoxNews.com ^ | June 05, 2012 | Joe Rao

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There is no question that countless numbers of people will be watching the transit of Venus on Tuesday; a very striking celestial phenomenon that has been seen only once in the last 129 years and won't happen again until December in the year 2117.

But as we prepare to watch the planet cross the face of the sun from our Earthly vantage point, have you ever wondered what the view would be like if we were on Venus? Obviously, that answer would be "what view?" since Venus is cloaked with a perpetual overcast.

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Good advice.:)

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For Connecticut FReepers:

UCONN Physics Dept, Storrs is giving a lecture at 7:30 tonight with simulcasts of the event

Yale, New Haven is doing something

Wesleyan, Middletown also

I’m so disappointed it is very overcast today, with not much hope of it clearing. :(

[Dominic01]

not unless we cryogenically freeze ourselves into the future

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Cool.

Slooh Transit of Venus Update

[NativeSon]

I saw the Venus transit. There was heavy cloud coverage but an opening appeared and I got about 15 minutes of clear viewing with solar binoculars.

Beautiful

[Daffynition]

We went to the event at UCONN, unfortunately the overcast skies didn’t cooperate for a telescope viewing, but the [hysics department simulcast the NASA feed from Hawaii. It was well-attended and a wonderful, historic experience for sky-gazers. :)