Transit of Venus

Hey cokeaddict,
Still waiting for you to e-mail me some details on the cooling system modifications (since 14 April). Or was that just crap so you could post something.

Now That was silly Greg.
Buggered if I will be passing them onto you after that stupid remark. I have already passed them on to some members, just for the record.

Actually GREG, I still have your request in my email box ( Post ID 12018)and it was replied to on the 15th April @ 10:48AM, Maybe if you would know your own email addy u wouldnt have said something so stupid. I am glad it didnt arrive now. Get off ur butt and make the effort for yourself u lunatic. Go and spent 4 diesel tanks @ 140 ltrs a time and 5 weekends and see how your results end upfor yourself.

Apoligies to the real people out there for my outburst. Usually I'd ignore such childish behaviour. To those of you that have a copy of my mods, id apreciate it if you didnt pass them onto this kid.
Regards Angelo

Now that WAS silly ANGELO,
Stupid, Lunatic Childish,Kid, all in one follow up.

Pity you couldn't have put so much thought into typing an email address
CORRECTLY then maybe you wouldn't be so hot and bothered now....

Regards
Greg

I cant do better than copy and paste your email addy as it was written. If something went wrong, I sure didnt receive an error.

G'day cokeaddict,

I'm up in Darwin mate and you are correct, CST is central standard time.

Diesel 1

G'day Bonz,

The transit can be viewed from anywhere in the country, but like most astronomical events, the clearer the sky the better the show. It would be best to get away from the coast and seek a patch of good clean air somewhere.

Diesel 1

I was a bit incorrect there Bonz - a partial transit can be viewed from anywhere in the country, but as pointed out by Mike, you would have to be somewhere on the west coast to witness the entire transit.

Diesel 1

Thanx Diesel. I looked at the info and theres times for the east coast also, i will be looking.

Regards Bonz

Hi Davoe,
considering that venus appears only as a small speck, moving across the sun, I don't think that method would work.
It will certainly be visible from Kalgoorlie, starting around about 1pm and finishing after sunset. Sunset.
Try playing around with the Applet: "Venus Transit Observer" on that Venus Transit web site.
Either input the Kalgoorlie Latitude & Longitude, or click onto the map at the approx. location of Kalgoorlie. Then select June 8th 2004. Then you just click onto the button marked "Watch 2004 Transit"
Next you just keep changing the "Local Time" and you'll get a representation of where Venus is at that time. You can keep changing the time and see the progress.
In Kalgoorlie the transit happens from approx.13:15 to approx 17:00 when the sun sets.
Hope this helps, Mike

Davoe - indeed you can observe like this. When Mercury last transitted the sun I got out my 7x35 binoculars and used them in a similar way to how you describe.

G'day Davoe,

As you can well appreciate, directing the sun's image through binoculars or telescopes generates high degrees of temperature and even though this will not adversely affect most instruments, it could very well have a disastrous outcome for instruments with multi layered lenses - the heat crazes the bonding adhesive.

Diesel 1