[Vision2020] Venus Transit of Sun

[Donovan Arnold]

"My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old or so to see the next
occurrence, in December 2117."--Sam Scripter
 
Ahh, probably the same year they get to see an occurrence of a Social Security check too. They say that Social Security will be broke by 2042. Guess what year I qualify for Soc. Sec? 
 
Donovan J. Arnold

From: Sam Scripter <moscowsam at charter.net>
To: vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 10:16 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Venus Transit of Sun



Tuesday evening, June 5, 2012
Pacific County, Washington State


Visionaires . . .

Did you observe the transit of Venus today?

We were projected for 30% chance of rain, today, but most of the afternoon
has been sunny, here on the coast of Washington State.

The "News" reminded me of the Transit of Venus across the face of Sun this 
evening, so I rushed together a "set-up" for recording this "once in a lifetime" 
event.

My wife and I did the photography about 7:15 p.m., PDT.

The first image is software manipulated:

The dark "wart" below center on the right side is Venus. An inexpensive
pair of binoculars in reverse was used to project the image onto 8-1/2x11
white paper. The less than full quality lenses is apparent by the chromatic
aberrations evident in the image below . . . Blue fringing at the top and
orange-red fringing at the bottom.



Here is the hastily contrived "set-up": A pineapple shipping carton leaning against a deck 
chair; white 8-1/2 white paper taped at its corners to the inside of the carton. You can 
see my shadow; I used the "big-dawg" Nikon D7000 camera, hand held. Also evident is the
shadow of my wife, holding the binoculars as a "projector". We might have procured sharper 
images had I used a tripod for the camera.



My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old or so to see the next
occurrence, in December 2117.

The End

MoscowSam I am . . . .

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