Ping: Bob Schmall: Re: Transit of Venus

George:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Bob

"George" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We had a lot of cloud in Montreal but I did manage to catch this one with
my
> pine tubed newt.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/space/lunatic/transit.htm
>
> George Anderson
>
> Wood shavings and mirrors
>
>
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > As you watched it - did you think about the song, 'There's a little
> > > black spot on the sun today...'?
> > >
> > > <watson-who is impressed by the celestial mechanics of the whole
> > > thing, but who enjoys a balls to the wall lunar eclipse so much more -
> > > unsophisticated, I guess.>
> >
> > Here's an excellent shot of the transit:
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
> >
> > The digital astro group has been loaded with images today.
> > And yeah, Tom--I get woodier (Obww) from a total solar or lunar eclipse,
> or
> > even an annular solar, than the transit. Will I someday be able to tell
my
> > great-grandkids that I was there for the Great Transit of '04? Who
cares?
> >
> > Last night I drug out the 4" refractor and saw all 4 of Jupiter's
Galilean
> > moons, 2 as definite circles rather than points of light, along with the
> > shadow of one (Callisto?) on the edge of the planet. And as always I had
> the
> > feeling that the show was just for me, that no one else on Earth was
> > watching.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
>
>

We had a lot of cloud in Montreal but I did manage to catch this one with my
pine tubed newt.

http://www.angelfire.com/space/lunatic/transit.htm

George Anderson

Wood shavings and mirrors


"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > As you watched it - did you think about the song, 'There's a little
> > black spot on the sun today...'?
> >
> > <watson-who is impressed by the celestial mechanics of the whole
> > thing, but who enjoys a balls to the wall lunar eclipse so much more -
> > unsophisticated, I guess.>
>
> Here's an excellent shot of the transit:
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
>
> The digital astro group has been loaded with images today.
> And yeah, Tom--I get woodier (Obww) from a total solar or lunar eclipse,
or
> even an annular solar, than the transit. Will I someday be able to tell my
> great-grandkids that I was there for the Great Transit of '04? Who cares?
>
> Last night I drug out the 4" refractor and saw all 4 of Jupiter's Galilean
> moons, 2 as definite circles rather than points of light, along with the
> shadow of one (Callisto?) on the edge of the planet. And as always I had
the
> feeling that the show was just for me, that no one else on Earth was
> watching.
>
> Bob
>
>
>

Hi Bob

I figure APOD and all of the magazines were saturated with transit shots
even bofore my films came back from the developer. Just what I have seen
posted by APML list members is incredible.
The scope is a little 5" f/8 newt with a purchased mirror. The 6" f/5.4 that
I ground and polished is going in a cherry tube with a maple bodied focuser
and purpleheart alt bearings.

George

"Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Nice shot, George. Why not submit it to Astronomy magazine here in the
> States or to the Canadian astronomy magazine (the name escapes me)?
> And a nice drive-by Obww with the pine tube. What size is it? The
telescope,
> I mean.
>
> Bob
>
>
> "George" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > We had a lot of cloud in Montreal but I did manage to catch this one
with
> my
> > pine tubed newt.
> >
> > http://www.angelfire.com/space/lunatic/transit.htm
> >
> > George Anderson
> >
> > Wood shavings and mirrors
> >
> >
> > "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > > "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > As you watched it - did you think about the song, 'There's a little
> > > > black spot on the sun today...'?
> > > >
> > > > <watson-who is impressed by the celestial mechanics of the whole
> > > > thing, but who enjoys a balls to the wall lunar eclipse so much
more -
> > > > unsophisticated, I guess.>
> > >
> > > Here's an excellent shot of the transit:
> > > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
> > >
> > > The digital astro group has been loaded with images today.
> > > And yeah, Tom--I get woodier (Obww) from a total solar or lunar
eclipse,
> > or
> > > even an annular solar, than the transit. Will I someday be able to
tell
> my
> > > great-grandkids that I was there for the Great Transit of '04? Who
> cares?
> > >
> > > Last night I drug out the 4" refractor and saw all 4 of Jupiter's
> Galilean
> > > moons, 2 as definite circles rather than points of light, along with
the
> > > shadow of one (Callisto?) on the edge of the planet. And as always I
had
> > the
> > > feeling that the show was just for me, that no one else on Earth was
> > > watching.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Nice shot, George. Why not submit it to Astronomy magazine here in the
States or to the Canadian astronomy magazine (the name escapes me)?
And a nice drive-by Obww with the pine tube. What size is it? The telescope,
I mean.

Bob


"George" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> We had a lot of cloud in Montreal but I did manage to catch this one with
my
> pine tubed newt.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/space/lunatic/transit.htm
>
> George Anderson
>
> Wood shavings and mirrors
>
>
> "Bob Schmall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > As you watched it - did you think about the song, 'There's a little
> > > black spot on the sun today...'?
> > >
> > > <watson-who is impressed by the celestial mechanics of the whole
> > > thing, but who enjoys a balls to the wall lunar eclipse so much more -
> > > unsophisticated, I guess.>
> >
> > Here's an excellent shot of the transit:
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
> >
> > The digital astro group has been loaded with images today.
> > And yeah, Tom--I get woodier (Obww) from a total solar or lunar eclipse,
> or
> > even an annular solar, than the transit. Will I someday be able to tell
my
> > great-grandkids that I was there for the Great Transit of '04? Who
cares?
> >
> > Last night I drug out the 4" refractor and saw all 4 of Jupiter's
Galilean
> > moons, 2 as definite circles rather than points of light, along with the
> > shadow of one (Callisto?) on the edge of the planet. And as always I had
> the
> > feeling that the show was just for me, that no one else on Earth was
> > watching.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
>
>

"Tom Watson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> As you watched it - did you think about the song, 'There's a little
> black spot on the sun today...'?
>
> <watson-who is impressed by the celestial mechanics of the whole
> thing, but who enjoys a balls to the wall lunar eclipse so much more -
> unsophisticated, I guess.>

Here's an excellent shot of the transit:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

The digital astro group has been loaded with images today.
And yeah, Tom--I get woodier (Obww) from a total solar or lunar eclipse, or
even an annular solar, than the transit. Will I someday be able to tell my
great-grandkids that I was there for the Great Transit of '04? Who cares?

Last night I drug out the 4" refractor and saw all 4 of Jupiter's Galilean
moons, 2 as definite circles rather than points of light, along with the
shadow of one (Callisto?) on the edge of the planet. And as always I had the
feeling that the show was just for me, that no one else on Earth was
watching.

Bob