{"id":4578,"date":"2012-06-05T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2018-12-31T19:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T05:16:43","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-venus-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Venus Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transit is over, an exhausting and exhilarating day!  I am headed to bed, but still totally jazzed with the experience.  Keeping the webcast going for seven hours was a huge effort.  Given the comments from our viewers it was worth it.  I will have to more fully write up the experience for a later post.<\/p>\n<p>The best visual for the day was the few minutes just before second contact&#8230;  A beautiful, razor thin arc of light coming through the Venusian atmosphere, connecting the two horns of the occluded Sun.  It was delicate and sublime, one of the most memorable sights I have ever seen through a telescope.  With the excellent seeing of Mauna Kea, and the wonderful optics of my TV-76 telescope, the sight was clear and steady.  I have yet to find a photograph that captures what I saw through the eyepiece.<\/p>\n<p>I will post a quickly processed version of one of the frames from the second camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4579\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4579\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4579\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CE54-68-12157-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Venus Transit Second Contact\" title=\"Venus Transit Second Contact\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CE54-68-12157-DC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CE54-68-12157-DC-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transit of Venus 2012, second contact at 12:27pm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transit is over, an exhausting and exhilarating day! I am headed to bed, but still totally jazzed with the experience. Keeping the webcast going for seven hours was a huge effort. Given the comments from our viewers it was worth it. I will have to more fully write up the experience for a later post. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Universe &#8211; Venus Transit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,18,41,45],"tags":[75,74,73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25641,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions\/25641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}