That was pretty awesome. I found that if I stacked eclipse-viewing glasses on top of my regular eyeglasses I (a) looked like a goof but (b) could see the transit. Without my eyeglasses I just didn't have the eyesight to resolve it.
Unless we go all posthuman, this will be the last Venus transit in our lifetimes. But there is a transit of Mercury in 2016!
A friend of mine built a pinhole-camera-type viewer with her son for the purposes of the transit. She is a way better mom than me ;)
I wouldn't be able to use eclipse-viewing glasses without my regular glasses, either. I guess this is a good argument for contact lenses but somehow...
What she said was that the pictures weren't great, but I think she felt that was a feature rather than a bug, in that it helps her "born digital" kid (same age as mine) appreciate how stupendously cool the NASA images are...
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Unless we go all posthuman, this will be the last Venus transit in our lifetimes. But there is a transit of Mercury in 2016!
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I wouldn't be able to use eclipse-viewing glasses without my regular glasses, either. I guess this is a good argument for contact lenses but somehow...
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I'm not sure a once-in-a-century event is sufficient justification for contacts :).
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