Venus

[bungo]

There can only be a few transits of Venus that anyone alive at the time was capable of observing, and just a few more that anyone alive might have realised was happening at the time: if the first telescopes appeared in the 1600s, then there have been 8 or 10 opportunities

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[finella_c]

Love the journal avatar. :-) I'll always remember my first - and at this point, only - view of Saturn, through our neighbour's backyard telescope.

Tiny, cold, and perfect.