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Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend
- tocs3 2y agoFull title: Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend — but don’t try to look for it Any one going to try to look for it?
- kibae 2y agoWhen I was in high school, the physics teachers set up a telescope aimed at Venus as it crossed the Sun's radius. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye, but through the telescope, you could see Venus as a tiny black dot drifting across the field of view. It was fascinating to watch a planet move in a perfectly straight line along its orbit.
- gus_massa 2y agoA pinhole camera is probably good enough and safer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
- MichaelTheGeek 2y agoI'd like to see this.
- mmooss 2y agoVenus is our closest neighbor, ~42 million km from Earth at its closest; Mars is ~56 million km.
- danielschreber 2y agoI think this headline has intentionally deceived people into thinking it is a transit. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus the next transit is 2117.
- thomas_tel 2y agoWe managed to bounce a signal of Venus this weekend, due to the proximity (42M km): https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-the-dwingeloo-telescope/ https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-t...