Venus Transit

[mrd]

So, Venus will be making a journey across the Sun in a few days. Apparently these transits happen in pairs, ~8 years apart. Taken as a pair, they happen once every ~100 years. So, could possibly be the only Venus transit of the Sun you or anyone on this planet will ever see. Anyone got any plans to go blind watching it?

Here's a handy map to show who can see what part of the transit and when. If you live in the Atlantic Ocean you get shafted

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/tran/TOV2012-Fig01.pdf

[Transient]

Since it'll only look like this,

[lvlshot]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Venustransit_2004-06-08_07-49.jpg[/lvlshot]

I don't really care.

[mrd]

Fair play Since it's a rare event, I might try and find an observatory around, see if they are showing it.