Venus Transit 8. 6. 2004

8h 21min8h 51minThe weather was great in Ostrava. However, there were clouds during the most interesting whiles. When the Venus (seen as a point) was going through the sun edge the wind blew off all of clouds. We could be pleased with that sunny day. Many people wanted to see the small point. We can´t see it very often in the sun disc. Hundreds of people went round Ostrava´s observatory´s telescopes and binoculars. I don´t try to number everybody who observed the phenomenon from windows of offices, classrooms or from the most absurd places with outlook on the Sun. If you liked glance at homely dot, you would have a look at this small archive of the small disc. The photos were taken by the digital camera DiMage Z1.

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8h 23min11h 13minThis love goddes was allowed to be Earth´s sister for a long time. In fact, they are more than different. They are a bit similar because the Venus´s diameter is 1652 km less than the Earth´s diameter. Its atmosphere is very thick and stormy. There are strong winds and sometimes acid rains. Atmospheric pressure is 100 times bigger than on the Earth´s surface. The warmness is about 480°C on the circumference. We know this data thanks to radar mesurations and space probes. That is why some sci-fi writers lost part of their inspiration. There are no extraterrestrials.

 

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13h 20minCompared to the Venus, the Sun is really bigger than it is visible from the photos. If the Sun was as big as an orange, we would see the Venus as a corn of millet which would be 11 meters far-away from the Sun.  We would see also another corn of millet which would be 15 meters far-away from the Sun and this would be the Earth.


This pages were created by  Šárka Bartošíková.