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The last Transit of Venus for a 105 years from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The transit of Venus is a rare event and if it is too cloudy where you are you can watch it live now!
Please go here if you are trying to view the eclipse from a mobile phone especially an iPhone.
The last Transit of Venus for a 105 years from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii on NEXTGEN FM.
The transit of Venus is a rare event and if it is too cloudy where you are you can watch it live now!
The NOAA Atmospheric Observatory from the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii is giving you the live view through the telescope.
Watch with millions all over the world as Earth’s sister crawls across the face of the Sun…
Leave a comment below and discuss the Transit live on NEXTGEN FM!
Here are some pictures of the event taken with the observatory telescope in Hawaii…
A calcium filter that allows you to see lower down into the Sun's atmosphere.
Transits of Venus in the past were used to gauge the distance from the earth to the Sun using the principle of parallax by viewing the Transit from two separate locations on Earth.
Venus dims the Sun’s light by a small amount, but astronomers use the same principle to detect exoplanets, worlds orbiting around distant stars in our galaxy and beyond…
A view of Venus transiting the Sun taken with the Hydrogen Alpha telescope filter, allowing you to see farther out into the Sun's atmosphere.
The image below shows Venus just after second contact, where sometimes a visible effect called “black drop” can be seen as Venus clears the edge of the Sun.
A visible light view of Venus and the Sun, the rarest of all the eclipses.
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Cindy Long
June 26, 2012 at 10:31 pm
I’m wondering if you know what the title/artist of the piece of music was that was playing during the live streaming of the transit of Venus from Mauna Loa that day . . . I really liked that music. I don’t think it’s the same piece that you have playing here, is it? Thanks.
Geoff Filipiak
June 27, 2012 at 1:39 am
Hi Cindy
Glad you found post interesting
Unfortunately I don’t know the artist who wrote the music.
I enjoyed the music as well