Venus

[brrm]

Nipped out of work before lunch to go & have a look at the transit of Venus, in Parks. There was an impressive crowd of people there, including my old tutor Martin Noble, and Richard Dawkins. Various telescopes had been set up, and there were long (but fast-moving) queues waiting to have a look through them.


Photos here

There were two semi-naked women kissing, but I didn't think it appropriate to use the work camera to photograph them. :-) (Not to mention, like, asking their permission or anything).

Quite pleased with the photo of the sun, too - taken through a telescope, just pointing the digicam into the eyepiece.

Comments

[lnr]

Any particular reason they're numbered 12 though 22 out of 11?

Nice pics though.

[tithonus.livejournal.com]

looks like i wouldn't have seen much even if i did have time yesterday [tuesdays are far and away my busiest days].

i like the second telescoped shot - i presume the big snooker ball is the sun and the tiny black circle in the bottom left is venus.. /me wonders what sort of filter makes the sun look like that.

most unfair depriving us of seminaked girls. ;-)