Watch the Mercury transit of the Sun from home!
The November 11 transit of Mercury across the face the Sun will be live streamed by the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
It appears that in Los Angeles the transit will have already started at sunrise, with Mercury at that point about a third of its way across the Sun’s face. Regardless, from about 7 am to 10 am (Pacific) the observatory will provide a view.
UPDATE: Images from an event in New Zealand will upload real time telescope images of the transit here.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The November 11 transit of Mercury across the face the Sun will be live streamed by the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
It appears that in Los Angeles the transit will have already started at sunrise, with Mercury at that point about a third of its way across the Sun’s face. Regardless, from about 7 am to 10 am (Pacific) the observatory will provide a view.
UPDATE: Images from an event in New Zealand will upload real time telescope images of the transit here.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Gratz to everyone who kept their eclipse glasses?
Wodun: People need to be very careful about using these older eclipse glasses. If you didn’t store them properly (in darkness) they might not provide proper protection any more.
Mercury Transit from Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory live stream at YouTube
(begins at 6:15am pacific, 9:15am Midwest)
https://youtu.be/rYZKNhTJmOI
tangentially– getting blasted with a snow-storm in Michigan, avoiding looking directly at the sun, will not be an issue for us
Cloudy in California….
Alesund, Norway
Mercury transit-cam live stream
https://youtu.be/GNvZHR91e4s
Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands
live stream
https://youtu.be/Fzcmd_KQpEw
Starlink Mission
11-11-19 SpaceX
https://youtu.be/pIDuv0Ta0XQ
–10 minutes to launch…