[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: David Cortner]

[Berlin_Freeper]

What a "Shooting Star" looks like #FromSpace

[gusopol3]

David Rittenhouse (Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square named for him) among others, observed the 1769 transit, calculated distance from earth to sun @ 93 million miles, which has proven to be more accurate than any other calculation of the time. The platform built behind the State House in Philadelphia to observe the transit (not used by Rittenhouse ) was still standing in 1776 and was the stage from which the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence occurred.

[knarf]

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[LasVegasMac]

Way cool!

Thanks for posting.

[6SJ7]

What a great picture to show the relative size of a planet to the Sun.

[momtothree]

Beautiful!

[Conan the Librarian]

June 5th 2012, what ever you do, make sure you get to see this. It’s the last time in our lifetime (unless they manage to get us another 100 years out of medicine).

Saw the one in 2004 as the Sun rose out of the see.

The 2012 I plan on being on top of the Contemporary Hotel at Disney World to watch the Sun set with Venus along with it.
(If that doesn’t work, I’ll find some place at WDW with a low horizon, or, get the boss to go over to St. Pete for the afternoon.)