June 2012 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Transit over GSL in UK newspaper
by Patrick Wiggins 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Anyone here know a Jim Urquhart? Somehow his picture of yesterday's transit over the Great Salt Lake was featured in a transit photo spread in a newspaper in the UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2155140/Transit-Venus-2012-S… patrick

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Transit of Venus: 5 June 2012
by Dave Gary 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Anyone who cares to look, This is the best I could do for the transit of Venus. It was very windy in Dammeron Valley, Utah (my location this time around--Andrew and Nancy Tomer’s driveway). Had it been calmer conditions Sun and Venus would not look as if they were deBrolie waveforms. I managed to get just after 1st contact, 2nd contact and a little after Greatest (midpoint) before I had to go home because of other commitments. Sorry, I couldn’t get more. Music, as always, to keep it less boring. Hopefully. http://gallery.me.com/davegary Dave

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Sorry, that should have read deBroglie waveform (sorry Patrick)
by Dave Gary 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

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SLASers on the tube
by Patrick Wiggins 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

A couple of video clips about last evening's transit: http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story/Watch-the-Venus-Transit/HQ9GKd6-d0ik7… http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=20714627 patrick

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Got a shot through the clouds
by Ryan Shaw 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Coronado PST, Nikon D300. http://twitpic.com/9t7agi Ryan

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Sousa's Transit of Venus March
by Patrick Wiggins 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

And for your listening enjoyment: Sousa's Transit of Venus March http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/transit/200002625/0001.mp3 Sounds like something that ought to be played at the next SLAS meeting. patrick

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Transit pics
by Joe Bauman 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Steve, you wanted transit pics to compile; you can have these http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2882033510522.98559.1850628854&typ… (note, some of the cool photos are by Cory) as well as my little video at http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5099. Everyone else, please enjoy! -- Joe/Dad

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Interesting PST shot I took
by Ryan Shaw 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

http://twitpic.com/9tatrv/full Did a little processing to bring out details. Ryan

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Sun-clouds-Venus
by Joe Bauman 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I accidentally removed this photo from my SLAS gallery and have replaced it; but the replacement has a different URL. So in case anyone who hasn't seen it yet is interested in looking, here's the URL: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5115 -- Joe

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Venus Transit
by Dave Gary 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I went to a friend’s house in Dammeron Valley. No clouds, quite a bit of wind. I took about 330 photos. When I get time to review them I will post a link to my Flickr page for those that are interested. It may be a couple of days. I only photographed to midpoint. I couldn’t stay any longer. Such is life. Dave

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