FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Venus Transit Tomorrow: live web broadcasting

["Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>]

Herve Dole wrote:
>
> if you cannot see directly the Venus Transit tomorrow,
> a few websites are broadcasting live the event. Here is
> my biased selection...


Thanks, Herve.  It will be fun to watch the transit, even if only 
virtually.  I was wondering if the transit times from the perspective of 
the SOHO spacecraft are available.  The parallax from SOHO relative to the 
center of earth is quite a bit greater than it is for any point on the 
earth, isn't it?

The idea of providing geocentric transit times reminds me of a very old 
George Carlin monologue.  His hippy weatherman character Al Sleet says, 
"the temperature at the airport is 68 degrees, which is stupid, because I 
don't know anybody who lives at the airport."

Tom









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