{"id":214,"date":"2012-06-05T06:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackspherelabs.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2012-06-05T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T22:45:41","slug":"transit-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/transit-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit of Venus &#8211; I was wrong about how long this thing lasts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you want for time and date to look at the sun:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/venus-transit.html\">http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/venus-transit.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have the paper glasses that they use at eclipse events.\u00a0 Right now where I am at it is cloudy.\u00a0 I plan to hand the glasses out but it would be nice to know the time that I should be looking for the transit.<\/p>\n<p>The simple maps that they have online say visible at sunset&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-214 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Map2012-2.gif'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Map2012-2-300x300.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-transit-path.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-transit-path-300x295.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Here is a video that is going to have the entire transit:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/venus\/\">http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/venus\/<\/a>\u00a0 It is going to be from an observatory in Hawaii.\u00a0 The transit there will start at about 22:00 Universal Time.\u00a0 Which is about 1800 Eastern time (6pm).<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\">Transit of Venus | exploratorium.edu\/venu<\/div>\n<p>NASA has some Universal Time tables that one can reference:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/transit\/venus\/city12-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/transit\/venus\/city12-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a display of UT vs other times: <a href=\"http:\/\/tycho.usno.navy.mil\/cgi-bin\/timer.pl\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tycho.usno.navy.mil\/cgi-bin\/timer.pl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am on the east coast near Rochester, NY.\u00a0 It should start at 6:03:44PM EST and end at 06:21:23pm EST. I hope the sky is clearn.<\/p>\n<p>I was also able to use a transit calculator (<a href=\"http:\/\/xjubier.free.fr\/en\/site_pages\/VenusTransitCalculator.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/xjubier.free.fr\/en\/site_pages\/VenusTransitCalculator.html<\/a>) to get some accurate times.\u00a0 I compared the accurate times of my location to some others and sunset times and they did not match.\u00a0 The transit has nothing to do(really) with sunset rather it has to do with when Venus is between you and the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some more information from Exploratorium:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The transit starts at about 22:09 Universal time (Greenwich mean time) on June 5 and ends at about 4:49 UT on June 6. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center has prepared <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/transit\/venus\/city12-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Circumstances for Cities<\/a> tables so you can look up the transit times for particular locations. The times are in Universal time; you can convert to local time by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/converter.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Clock\u2014Time Zone Converter<\/a>. (You may notice that the date given for the transit on the tables is &#8220;2012 June 06&#8243; rather than June 5\u20136. That&#8217;s because the date is for Greenwich, England. Greenwich is at the prime meridian\u20140\u00b0 0\u2032 longitude\u2014and is the starting point of all the world&#8217;s time zones.)&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/venus\/question3.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/venus\/question3.html<\/a>)<br \/>\n<!-- End of Exploratorium Video Player --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you want for time and date to look at the sun: http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/venus-transit.html I have the paper glasses that they use at eclipse events.\u00a0 Right now where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,72,71],"tags":[85,82,679,79,81,76,78,75,73,80,74,83,84],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chirp","category-important","category-space","tag-calculator","tag-clock","tag-hawaii","tag-important-2","tag-map","tag-nasa","tag-space-2","tag-sun","tag-transit","tag-universe","tag-venus","tag-video","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}