I'd beg to differ. I consider ingress and egress the best parts of a transit (and having only seen Mercury transits, myself). 1st through 4th contact. The slow march of the planet across the sun is kinda boring, unless it gets close to, or obscures a sunspot. This will be my first transit with a PST, so I'm really hoping to see Venus pass in front of a prominence before 1st contact. Unfortunately the sun will have set before we see 3rd and 4th contact. I'm obviously hoping for clear skies, but not especially hopeful. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
On 30 May 2012, at 09:43, Chuck Hards wrote:
There is an unwritten rule in the universe that states that any rare astronomical event visible from Salt Lake will bring in bad weather. I've seen it happen too many times to not believe it.
The one saving grace to the transit is unlike the recent eclipse when the best part only lasted 4 minutes, with the transit the good stuff will last nearly 5 hours.