Venus Transit - Sixty Symbols

With a rare Venus transit imminent, Professor Mike Merrifield discusses a few items of interest. More spacey stuff from Mike at our new astronomy channel: http://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos

Great transit info at: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/trans...

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[K Tell]

Saw the transit from the top of the cable car in Tromso. My first Midnight Sun. Perfect weather! Best seat in Europe! I am ecstatic!

[sixtysymbols]

any pics?

[taofledermaus]

Awesome video! Very well explained

[sixtysymbols]

Mike will be pleased you thought so (if I can get him to read the comments!)

[biggboots]

The transit reminds me of buses, you wait a lifetime and two come at once...

[griffonu]

Where is that bloody Like x 2 button?

[ShadowriverUB]

It would be defintly bigger :) as for transpacency thats interesting quastion, most likely it would be translucent on part of the clouds that lights go thru.

[zloychechen5150]

brady, thank you for making this stuff. and thanks to these scientists brilliantly excited about what they do. even though my mom says she was interested in this sort of things when she was like 15, after which she went on to become a professor in chemistry (her interests becoming more particular), and i'm a 23 year old dickhead, i still find these videos excellent. there is no bad knowledge after all)

[Ryan Will]

hypothetically speaking, if venus was lets say the size jupiter, i wonder what that would look like passing in front of the sun. anyone have any ideas? since its a gas giant would it be a sort of transparent or black?

[twen7yseven]

lol

[Walsh2571]

We got to see this in our physics class xD made the biology class rage of course.

[atourdeforce]

Hi Brady! just to let everybody know welding glasses or face shields are very good for looking at the sun safely, it was not mentioned and they would be much easier for the average person to acquire

[HappyApples149]

See ya in 100 years venus

[sean mikulskis]

"It's a little black dot going across the surface of the sun"

[93hickey]

it was cloudy.... :(