Some screen captures are above... for those of you with DirecTV, the NASA TV channel is on channel 376. (universal channels, from what I understand...)
1 posted on
06/07/2004 10:39:48 PM PDT by
cgk
To: cgk
2 posted on
06/07/2004 10:42:23 PM PDT by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: cgk
And for those with Dish Satellite, the Nasa Channel is #213.
3 posted on
06/07/2004 10:43:07 PM PDT by
dstarr
(I'm proud of my husband who was a Viet Nam vet.)
To: cgk; Howlin; RadioAstronomer
4 posted on
06/07/2004 10:43:13 PM PDT by
kayak
(In Memoriam ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan ~ 1911-2004)
5 posted on
06/07/2004 10:43:16 PM PDT by
cgk
("If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.")
To: cgk
So rare, in fact, that no living person has ever observed it before, since the last transit of Venus happened over 120 years ago, in 1882.I remember President Reagan's thoughful first-hand reports on the last transit. Very moving. ;O)
7 posted on
06/07/2004 10:47:24 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Some leftists find Bush's very existence to be a "constant oppressive force in their daily psyche.")
To: cgk
Trying to figure out what the streaks are on the images. They appear as though the optics are experiencing tracking problems, however there are not that many sunspots on the surface of the sun to cause that, plus the image of Venus is not streaked or showing trails. Maybe somthing over or on the solar filters is the cause.
8 posted on
06/07/2004 10:48:30 PM PDT by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
Here is the sun from space, picture taken by a satellite, without the interference of an atmosphere, etc. The ultraviolet (x-ray) is visible...
9 posted on
06/07/2004 10:48:40 PM PDT by
cgk
("If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.")
13 posted on
06/07/2004 10:53:38 PM PDT by
cgk
("If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.")
To: cgk
NASA TV on the web (for those of us without tv's.)
NASA Live TV19 posted on
06/07/2004 11:08:07 PM PDT by
pops88
To: cgk
Are you sure this isn't just an elaborate setup on some movie set, designed to tweak the flat-earthers?
Heh heh heh.
Very nice. Thanks for the post.
To: cgk
I would strongly suggest that people use a pinhole viewer to look at the sun.
http://www.transitofvenus.org/safety.htm
Stare at the sun long enough and the last thing you will see is a host over the sun.
To: cgk
Can't believe NASA pulled live coverage. All I can find right now are webcams that are covering it. Like
this black and white one from the Netherlands. The image is updated every 30 seconds (you have to keep hitting the 'refresh' button).
Here's another page that has a list of links. But so far I've had no luck finding a server offering a true, real-time, quality, color image that isn't swamped by users. If anyone finds one, let us know!
To: cgk
Here's a color webcam that refreshes automatically every minute.
Venus DeMilo Hamilton
To: cgk
Just got in from seeing this. We took lots of pictures from the Pier at Tybee Island Georgia. I will post what I took when I wake up more. It was truly beautiful!
31 posted on
06/08/2004 5:49:15 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(I am a Librarian. I don't know anything....I just know where to look it up.)
To: cgk
Hawaiians should have particular interest, as Captain Cook's voyage had to do with traveling to a distant point on the globe such that the passing of Venus could be observed from two distant points, necessary to enable certain celestial calculations, including the distance between the earth and sun.
To: cgk
There's a little black spot on the sun today.
34 posted on
06/08/2004 6:55:55 AM PDT by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: cgk
AT last! We'll finally find out how big the astronomical unit is!
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