Sat, 18 May 2013 15:02:35 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333382#Comment_333382 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333382#Comment_333382 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:17:22 -0700 Purple Wyrm Transit of Venus (or as a friend of mine put it "Venus's sexy dance across our star") tomorrow? Last chance until 2117 you know.

I've taken the day off work and built a sun projector out of coathangers and plastic plates. Now I've just got to hope the "cloudy periods" they're predicting for my local areas include enough sunny periods to make it worthwhile. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333389#Comment_333389 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333389#Comment_333389 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:49:31 -0700 StefanJ
The recent partial solar eclipse was visible as a murky image through the clouds.

Bleah. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333391#Comment_333391 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333391#Comment_333391 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:04:18 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333436#Comment_333436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333436#Comment_333436 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:23:48 -0700 Osmosis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333495#Comment_333495 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333495#Comment_333495 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:08:27 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333500#Comment_333500 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333500#Comment_333500 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:46:11 -0700 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333505#Comment_333505 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333505#Comment_333505 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:46:41 -0700 manglr http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333507#Comment_333507 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333507#Comment_333507 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:55:22 -0700 256
Get on a livestream! NASA has about a bajillion from different observatories. Here's one from the top of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Hawaiians and astronomers alike.

1st contact should be in around 15 minutes. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333509#Comment_333509 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333509#Comment_333509 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:03:52 -0700 StefanJ http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333510#Comment_333510 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333510#Comment_333510 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:15:17 -0700 256
edit: Images from SDO (solar dynamics observatory, in orbit around Earth):


c/o NASA/SDO, HMI, and AIA science teams.

2nd Contact! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333511#Comment_333511 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333511#Comment_333511 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:15:35 -0700 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333514#Comment_333514 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333514#Comment_333514 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:00:57 -0700 nigredo Live stream ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333520#Comment_333520 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333520#Comment_333520 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:35:58 -0700 Argos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333521#Comment_333521 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333521#Comment_333521 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:54:30 -0700 Purple Wyrm
But I'm watching the Mt Wilson Observatory webcast, so it's not all bad.

And the whole media-hooha has got some of my friends interested in going out and doing some night astronomy, so that's a bonus :) ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333595#Comment_333595 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333595#Comment_333595 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:02:05 -0700 Foamhead ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333600#Comment_333600 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10702&Focus=333600#Comment_333600 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:25:57 -0700 256
A truly remarkable event. One of the best bits, oddly, was hearing scientists atop Mauna Kea wonder what the world will be like at the next transit, and reading aloud the same thoughts written down by another scientist at the transit of Venus in 1769. ]]>