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<\/a><\/div>\nI carried my telescope, a little 4-incher over to Hutto Lake Park and set up the projection screen where it would be shaded by stone pillar. Then it was just a matter of aiming the eyepiece in the right direction and keeping the telescope tracking the sun.<\/p>\n
I had many people come and look at the rare event. Quite a few people had heard about it on the news but weren’t aware that it was going on right then. I waved at all the people who came by telling them to come see Venus and it was their last chance in 105 years.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nI also invited all everyone by Twitter and Facebook to come by. Graham Perks came with his kids and his binoculars to set up a similar projection system. It was a successful few hours until the sun moved behind a cloud bank in the west and it was time to pack it all up.<\/p>\n
My older brother Roger had a telescope, a six-inch Newtonian he built himself. I have fond memories of hauling it out and projecting the sun onto a screen on eclipse days. So, when the Transit of Venus approached, I decided to do the same thing. I carried my telescope, a little 4-incher over to Hutto… Continue reading My Venus Transit Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,108,109],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_1248.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-tw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Once I got home, I took one of the photos I took of the screen and dropped it into photoshop to enhance the contrast and make the Venus more visible, there beside the sunspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"