The Sun – Image Credit NASA SOHO
Dr Lucie Green from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory will be giving a talk about the Sun to the Reading and District Amateur Radio Club on Thursday, September 27 at 7:30 pm.
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AMSAT-UK has an ever growing membership base from shortwave listeners to satellite engineers, amateur radio in space is becoming more affordable with the
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The AMSAT-UK FUNcube projects aims to be at the forefront with a launch of it’s very own educational Cubesat in 2012 http://funcube.org.uk/
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At 22:09 UT on June 5, 2012 the planet Venus will appear as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun. The transit will finish at 04:49 UTC on June 6 (exact time depends on location of observer).
Clouds permiting, it may be visible to observers in the UK from dawn (about 03:46 UT in London).
This will be the last time the planet Venus will make the trek across the face of the sun as seen from Earth until the year 2117.
Note: Observing the Sun directly without appropriate protection can damage or destroy retinal cells, causing temporary or permanent blindness.
Clint Bradford K6LCS has posted a collection of URL’s where you should be able to watch the Venus transit online from sites around the world.
NASA (USA) http://venustransit.nasa.gov/2012/transit/
NASA Edge http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/nasaedge/index.html
University of Barcelona (from a telescope in Norway) https://gaia.am.ub.es/serviastro/www/html/venus2012/live/index.html
National Solar Observatory http://venustransit.nso.edu/live.html
Exploratorium (via the Mauna Loa Observatory) http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/
NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Coca Cola Space Science Center (from Australia) http://www.ccssc.org/transit2012.html
Bareket observatory (Israel)
http://www.bareket-astro.com/live-astronomical-web-cast/live-free-venus-transit-webcast-6-june-2012.html
Mt. Lemmon Sky Center http://skycenter.arizona.edu/annoucement/live
Astronomers Without Borders (from Mt. Wilson, California)
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/projects/transit-of-venus/live-webcast.html
The 2012 Transit of Venus using HAM Radio http://aprs.org/VenusTransit2012.html
Transit of Venus Special Event June 6, 2012
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2012/transit_of_venus_special_event.htm
Ultra-high Definition video recording of 2012 Venus Transit
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=145648241
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