[Ilugc] Fwd: [ilugb] [OffTopic] Watch Transit of Venus with FSMK on June 6th from 6:30 am to 10:00 am at Lalbagh Hilltop
- From: arun289@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Venkataswamy)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:23:14 +0530
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>wrote:
Do we have any such event in chennai?
Yes, live viewing through telescope at the planetarium or
live view through a special solar telescope at Elliot's beach at Besant
nagar.
More information here in my blog:
http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/
Can we simulate in stellarium?
Yes you can.
- Start Stellarium
- Press F5 to show Date/time window (if you want to simulate it now) and
change the date to 2012/06/06 and the time to an appropriate value. If you
want to see the first point of contact, set the time to 3:41 AM. But you
will have to remove the ground (by pressing G) as the sun will be below the
horizon for us.
- Press Ctrl+F and search for `Venus`. Stellarium will center the
display on Venus.
- Now, press Ctrl+Up arrow to zoom into the Sun and Venus system. You
will be able to see the transit.
Regards,
Arun
http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/
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