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Last Venus transit for over 100 years on June 5th
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It'll never happen again in our lifetime....
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On Tuesday, June 5, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory trained its solar telescope onto the sun to observe the Venus transit. In addition to capturing this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event for posterity, the telescope caught something else—something that the Dyer staff has yet to identify.
In this video, a small object slowly crosses the disk of the sun diagonally, beginning at the upper right-hand quadrant and ending at the lower left-hand quadrant. For reference, Venus is the large black dot in the lower right-hand quarter of the sun.
On Tuesday, June 5, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory trained its solar telescope onto the sun to observe the Venus transit. In addition to capturing this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event for posterity, the telescope caught something else—something that the Dyer staff has yet to identify.
In this video, a small object slowly crosses the disk of the sun diagonally, beginning at the upper right-hand quadrant and ending at the lower left-hand quadrant. For reference, Venus is the large black dot in the lower right-hand quarter of the sun.
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Probably space junk or an asteroid not in the normal asteroid belt.
I set my alarm at 5.00 AM to see this, and being in England's 'monsoon season' in the first half of June, saw bugger-all and went back to bed.......
I set my alarm at 5.00 AM to see this, and being in England's 'monsoon season' in the first half of June, saw bugger-all and went back to bed.......
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