Hi Yes! I'm out of the lab and uh I am outside here trying to get the uh Transit of Venus I thought I'd uh Rush on out and uh I've set up my tripod here with a pair of binoculars and I've got my whiteboard here and T the sun has just come out. Look, check it out. Not sure if you can see that or not. Hang on.

I can't see on the screen here. it's too hard outside, but you can see there's Venus right there. that furry little furry little dot right about there and that is the transit of Venus Tada it's still going on. It's about uh 12:15 in there I Have no idea how this is going to turn out on the video because it's hard to see on the screen I'm using the viewfinder actually first time ever on the camera, but there's the uh, there's Venus and uh, yep, the calculations do work.

it's supposed to be there and it certainly is. good to know. Hasn't gone, uh, hasn't gone missing. Fortunately, it takes about 6 hours for it to Transit right across the Um surface.

so uh I can't get a time lapse cuz I'd need to track in. um, a solar tracking thing to get that and it really is, uh, quite hard to get this cuz you can't actually see it. Maybe you can see the Uh dot over there on the Whiteboard but uh I've you can't see it until I actually get my shadow in there like that and then you can get the then you can get the gist of the outline but then I can't put the camera in the way and that should show it pretty well. that tiny little dot I'm not sure the exact you know size of it in relation to the uh Sun at this uh distance, but it takes about 6 hours for it to Transit all the way across and uh, you'll finish at about uh 2:30 p.m.

today so it's got another 2 and 1/2 hours left or something like that and it's a little bit fuzzy cuz my I don't think my my binoculars are that great but it I've tried several Pairs and it is the best pair I have but it's not too bad at all. Can definitely see it now. I'm not sure if you can see that we can. there's a shimmer of the clouds.

oh it's getting a bit dark now. No, it's just vanished. but you could see the Shimmer of the clouds as they pass. There we go, it just, uh, it's really quite nice.

This is I'm sure not going to work on camera so apologies, but uh, it really is quite a nice effect. and I can definitely see Venus even though it's a bit uh, blurred. I'm pretty happy with it though, so this worked. a treat once in a lifetime event the transit of Venus and you can definitely see it.

Little furry black dot there. not sure what, uh probably the quality of my my binoculars are pretty Dar Ordinary. All sorts of aberration and things like that but it uh transits across takes about 6 OD hours and uh can definitely see it I call this a wind I've got no solar filter or anything else on there that would helped. A nice uh tracking telescope with better Optics and a better uh a proper solar telescope of course would have been nice.

but I can definitely see it. It's a win. turn, turn, turn that off. Thanks Oh no one.

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