Transit of Venus

Last night, I was at home trying to find the binocular. Since a few months ago, I got this information from National Geography, I marked it on my calendar of this events. I love  astronomical phenomena since I was a child. This morning, after I found the binocular, research result of the safety disappointed me. It is not safe at all to use sunglasses on top of the binocular. It can only block certain light. The remaining part can still cause severe damage. I felt sad and assumed that the only thing I can do is to read news and watch the video on line.

Dramatically, five minutes later, I got an email from school, the Physics & Astronomy Department will set up three solar telescopes for public viewing. Around 3:00pm, I can not sit in lab and went tot the Bell Tower to check it out. They were not there.

Two hours later, I tried again. This time, out of my expectation, I saw a huge line. There are lots of student even having they own eclipse glasses. Some of them even tried to use X-ray films. They were all so excited, discussing about it. Finally, I got a chance to look through this telescope to look at the Venus. Unfortunately, I can not take a picture from the telescope since there were still lots of students waiting to see it this special phenomena.