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Occultation of Venus
jamescanvin
post Dec 1 2008, 06:07 PM
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Gloriously clear evening here in Devon - just got back after watching Venus emerge from behind the moon.

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djellison
post Dec 2 2008, 12:33 AM
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Leicester must be cursed. No ISS/STS flyovers AT ALL during the mission because of cloud. No Venus occultation because of....you guessed it...
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- jamescanvin   Occultation of Venus   Dec 1 2008, 06:07 PM
- - remcook   wow   Dec 1 2008, 06:27 PM
- - jamescanvin   And a GIF animation: Taken (irregularly) over 1...   Dec 1 2008, 06:35 PM
- - Ant103   Good catches James . My owns : Before the meeting...   Dec 1 2008, 06:56 PM
- - Tesheiner   Beautiful pictures, specially the GIF. I was drivi...   Dec 1 2008, 09:01 PM
- - ngunn   Likewise for us in Wales - but I knew I'd find...   Dec 1 2008, 09:03 PM
|- - helvick   For once we had wonderfully clear skies here in Ir...   Dec 1 2008, 09:15 PM
|- - Airbag   Slightly off topic since beyond the occultation, b...   Dec 1 2008, 10:43 PM
- - Doc   What fantastic images guys! If only it hadn...   Dec 1 2008, 09:07 PM
- - Stu   Fantastic view from here in Kendal... watched it f...   Dec 1 2008, 11:01 PM
- - Stu   Couple of wide angle shots, too...   Dec 1 2008, 11:53 PM
- - Floyd   Boston is clear and it is a beautiful view---the s...   Dec 2 2008, 12:21 AM
- - Astro0   Nice images everyone. We had a lovely view of what...   Dec 2 2008, 12:33 AM
- - djellison   Leicester must be cursed. No ISS/STS flyovers AT ...   Dec 2 2008, 12:33 AM
|- - tedstryk   I have missed this whole spectacle thanks to bad w...   Dec 2 2008, 03:33 AM
|- - ustrax   Can take the clouds for missing the occultation bu...   Dec 2 2008, 08:59 AM
- - nprev   Yeah, me too...the marine layer's been thick ...   Dec 2 2008, 03:37 AM
- - Stu   Any UK members who can access the BBC's iPlaye...   Dec 2 2008, 11:26 AM
|- - AndyG   Hey Stu, my distant memories of Radio Cumbria were...   Dec 3 2008, 10:10 AM
- - Ant103   Nices pics there, especially Astro0 with the big s...   Dec 2 2008, 03:14 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Ant103 @ Dec 2 2008, 03:14 PM) I m...   Dec 2 2008, 03:51 PM
|- - 4th rock from the sun   Here's my view, taken with a digital camera th...   Dec 2 2008, 09:51 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   Stu wins for composition. Now we all need to pi...   Dec 2 2008, 03:17 PM
- - djellison   Isn't Radio Cumbria, according to Richard Hamm...   Dec 3 2008, 10:17 AM
- - Stu   It was called "Lamb Bank" and was kind o...   Dec 3 2008, 02:07 PM
- - nprev   [ahem]...um, yeah, we had sort of a sheep-dating s...   Dec 4 2008, 01:11 AM


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