8th June 2004

In spite of the bad weather in last few days, on 8th June we were welcomed by an absolutely clear sky. At about seven we met on the playground in front of the Church basic school in Kladno in a good mood. In participation of teachers from our school, Mrs. Rindtová and Mrs. Scheirichová, Mrs. Pelikánová from the Church school and her husband, we installed the necessary aparature. Our observation method was the projection. We used the telescope Bresser (observation) type RANGER (magnification 20x-60x; diameter of the objective lens 60mm; luminosity 9). We fixed the telescope to the tripod, put shadow away, and projected the picture on a board with paper, attached to the music rack. We took into account that we would have to move the system constantly according to the position of the Sun. We determined the coordinate and the time using GPS.

During the whole forenoon we were attentively observing and taking photos. We had this digital cameras on our disposal: Canon 300D, 6.3 Mpx; Olympus D-390/C-150, 2 Mpx; Fujifilm S5000, 3.2 Mpx, Olympus C350, 3.2 Mpx. We synchronized the time on the cameras with the time on the GPS device (we took several photos of the GPS device with current time during observating).

Mgr. Pelikánová brought some of her classes. We introduced Venus to them, showed the projection and explained the observated phenomenon.

Unfortunately with time first clouds appeared, which made it impossible to observate smoothly. About midday Mrs Rindtová came with our class. She was observating Venus with us till the moment when it left the Sun disc. Finally we all shaked our hands as the sign of succesful cooperation.

Venus transit

Roman Hájek