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Thanks to Frank Reed, who reminded us about this event last night, I got
up at 4AM to witness the event. Crystal clear skies this morning. A
godsend.  So I viewed the sun for about a half hour with my sextant (and
6X scope). I too, was amazed at the clarity of the dark disk against the
backdrop of the sun. Made it worthwhile to get up that early. Then I woke
my wife and asked her if she wanted to see it. "Is it spectacular she
asked?".  Well not particularly, however, it ain't going to happen again
in our lifetime so you can at least tell people that you saw it.

Went back to sleep and got up again at 6AM to catch the last bit. By
0715, the disk was just taking a nip out of the right hand side of the
sun, then it was over.

Quite an interesting sight I must say. And thanks again to Frank for his
reminder. I have been so engrossed in trying to get my boat ready these
days that I would have completely forgotten about it and would have been
severely ticked off at missing it.

Robert


>It has been drought here in southern NSW, Australia. Total of 40mm of
rain in the last 6 months, crystal clear days and nights, week after week
as we slip into winter.
>
>Today, low cloud, building and breaking during the day. The transit
commenced around 3.14.33pm local time (EST)....heavy cloud blocked all
view.
>
>Intermittent rays of sunshine for the next hour and a bit. Teasing.
>
>Then at around 4.20pm, the clouds around the sun cleared for a little
less than  5 minutes. Only time enough to take in the phenomena.  An
absolutely brilliant view of the transit through my sextant telescope and
shades. While I had looked at animations of the transit, I had not
expected the shape of venus to be so "definite" on the sun's surface.
>
>At 4.30 the sun disappeared completely behind clouds and then the local
hills.
>
>So, how did others fare?
>
>Lee Martin
>
>
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It has been drought here in southern NSW,
>Australia. Total of 40mm of rain in the last 6 months, crystal clear
days and
>nights, week after week as we slip into winter.
>
 
>
Today, low cloud, building and breaking
during the
>day. The transit commenced around 3.14.33pm local time (EST)....heavy
cloud
>blocked all view.
>
 
>
Intermittent rays of sunshine for the next
hour and
>a bit. Teasing.
>
 
>
Then at around 4.20pm, the clouds around
the sun
>cleared for a little less than  5 minutes. Only time enough to take in
>the phenomena.  An absolutely brilliant view of the transit through my
>sextant telescope and shades. While I had looked at animations of the
transit, I
>had not expected the shape of venus to be so "definite" on the sun's
>surface.
>
 
>
At 4.30 the sun disappeared completely
behind
>clouds and then the local hills.
>
 
>
So, how did others fare?
>
 
>
Lee Martin
>

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