Greetings, all, Congratulations to all of you who played a role in capturing the images of ISS transitting the Sun during the Transit of Venus. A sparkling achievement. Thomas Fly <tfly@alumni.caltech.edu> writes: >> Probably you remember the cheer, "2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?". > A couple months back, Walter Nissen pointed out a curiosity about the > date of the Venus transit, that I've not heard mentioned anyone > mention since. Yes, I noticed the 2-4-6-8 many, many moons ago. But it was not until I was listening to the time service announcement at 10 hours UTC that I noticed that we would soon arrive at a more extended numerical instant. We then took note of that instant as it passed into history while Venus was still fully upon the face of the Sun, and later I recorded in my log as the time of observation of the Transit of Venus, h m s 2004-06-08 10 12 14.1618202224262830323436... Cheers. Walter Nissen wnissen@tfn.net -81.8637, 41.3735, 256m elevation --- Major parties are dangerous and ineffective in advancing the interests of the people for the same reason that monarchy is dangerous and ineffective in advancing the interests of the people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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