June 08, 2004

Looking for webcams of the Transit of Venus that actually work? The ones in Norway seem to be doing the best job of it so far:

http://webcast16.uio.no/trheim1_eng.html http://webcast3.uio.no/trheim3_eng.html http://webcast5.uio.no/trheim2_eng.html

posted by John Hardy 20 years ago
  • That first link again. Thanks, John!
  • and another, um, German? site.
  • Oh, fantastic, JH!! Thanks so much. Looking forward to this.
  • /listening to: King of Pain.
  • Here's a nice one coming in from Iran. You can really see that parallax now (sorry self link)
  • Anyone here who hasn't checked out John's truly great blog really ought to do so post-haste.
  • Unfortunately that last one refreshes and then goes to a wrong page, you need to click the original link again to get it back.
  • Thanks, John Hardy, for the links.
  • great images - much superior to my & my friend's pin-hole cards this morning (not the most precise of methods, that). It was very exciting to see ... for about 10 minutes. Then, hot and humid and needing more sunscreen.
  • The pinhole approach didn't work at all for me in the feeble and fading winter sunlight here but a friend managed to do remarkable job under the same conditions using a pair of binoculars.
  • Here's a series of photos submitted to the BBC News website.
  • Re using binoculars link -- maybe substitute a china plate for the cardboard? to lessen the risk of setting things afire.
  • nice links all-- Didn't Google do a nice job with their logo?
  • Did they have one? I didn't see it.
  • Didn't Google do a nice job with their logo? You mean this one, with monkeys and bananas? (Yeah, you meant Venus, but the other is cooler)