<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old or so to see the next<BR>occurrence, in December 2117."--Sam Scripter</FONT></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Ahh</SPAN>, probably the same year they get to see an <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>occurrence</SPAN></SPAN> of a Social Security check too. They say that Social Security will be broke by 2042. Guess what year I qualify for Soc. Sec? </FONT></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Sam Scripter <moscowsam@charter.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, June 5, 2012 10:16 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Venus Transit of Sun<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><BR>Tuesday evening, June 5, 2012<BR>Pacific County, Washington State<BR><BR><BR><SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Visionaires</SPAN> . . .<BR><BR>Did you observe the transit of Venus today?<BR><BR>We were projected for 30% chance of rain, today, but most of the afternoon<BR>has been sunny, here on the coast of Washington State.<BR><BR>The "News" reminded me of the Transit of Venus across the face of Sun this <BR>evening, so I rushed together a "set-up" for recording this "once in a lifetime" <BR>event.<BR><BR>My wife and I did the photography about 7:15 p.m., PDT.<BR><BR>The first image is software manipulated:<BR><BR>The dark "wart" below center on the right side is Venus. An inexpensive<BR>pair of binoculars in reverse was used to project the image onto 8-1/2x11<BR>white paper. The less than full quality lenses is apparent by the chromatic<BR>aberrations evident in the image below . . . Blue fringing at the top
and<BR>orange-red fringing at the bottom.<BR><BR><IMG alt="" width=504 height=504><BR><BR>Here is the hastily contrived "set-up": A pineapple shipping carton leaning against a deck <BR>chair; white 8-1/2 white paper taped at its corners to the inside of the carton. You can <BR>see my shadow; I used the "big-<SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>dawg</SPAN>" Nikon D7000 camera, hand held. Also evident is the<BR>shadow of my wife, holding the binoculars as a "projector". We might have procured sharper <BR>images had I used a tripod for the camera.<BR><BR><IMG alt="" src="cid:1.3882905263@web162903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" width=666 height=516><BR><BR>My teen-aged grandchildren will have to live to be 118 years old or so to see the next<BR>occurrence, in December 2117.<BR><BR>The End<BR><BR>MoscowSam I am . . . .<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the
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