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Jun. 8th, 2004 09:23 pmI'm so disapppointed in you people... OK, not the CO people or anybody west of there, but the rest of you... for shame. I got up at the ass crack of dawn (ie 3:45) to get ready for work and make it to Harvard at 5 in order to see the sunrise and the transit of venus. I've read no mention of the event in my friend page other than in the rss feeds I subscribe to. C'mon people!
I admit, when that alarm went off I so wanted to roll over and go back to sleep. But I knew that my dad (big astronomy buff stuck in CO where it wasn't visible) would have kiscked my ass if I skipped out so I went. It was pretty nifty. You could see it without any magnification... just eclipse glasses to prevent, you know, blindness and stuff. They also had filtered telescopes set-up so you could see it even better.
Don't worry if you missed it though. There's an encore performance in eight years before another 120-odd year break. And the one in 2012 will be visible throughout North America, so no excuses next time!
And yes, I do realize that giving up sleep to look at a little black dot on the sun makes me a total science geek. What can I say, it's genetic.
I admit, when that alarm went off I so wanted to roll over and go back to sleep. But I knew that my dad (big astronomy buff stuck in CO where it wasn't visible) would have kiscked my ass if I skipped out so I went. It was pretty nifty. You could see it without any magnification... just eclipse glasses to prevent, you know, blindness and stuff. They also had filtered telescopes set-up so you could see it even better.
Don't worry if you missed it though. There's an encore performance in eight years before another 120-odd year break. And the one in 2012 will be visible throughout North America, so no excuses next time!
And yes, I do realize that giving up sleep to look at a little black dot on the sun makes me a total science geek. What can I say, it's genetic.