Nasa Sun Earth Day 2012

[ApprenticeAstronomer]

Is anyone watching this webcast? Am I right in saying its running late?

[ApprenticeAstronomer]

Nevermind, it has started

[Caldwell 14]

I'm watching, I posted a link to it earlier

[ApprenticeAstronomer]

Has there show went off air for everyone else or am i the only one?

[Caldwell 14]

No it went off, its starting to transit now

[Caldwell 14]

Yep first contact....

[ObscuredbyClouds]

http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/

this is working

[jonathan]

All I see is a static image of the sun in red with a red dot some way off in the corner of the video, but the audio describes the transit beginning. *sigh*

Everything is against us!

Ah, now we see a repeating video of Venus approaching the sun, let's have live feed please guys!

EDIT: Oh, I take it back, I see the transit happening in the lower left corner of the sun.

[Citizen]

I'm confused. I was expecting, after much reading and viewing etc, that contact and transit would be toward the top of the sun as we look at it. Looking at the Nasa live streaming, Venus has turned up at the bottom. Assume it's because it's being viewed from space rather than the ground? Am I missing something?

[Citizen]

Parallax innit!

[jonathan]

I think it may be corrected for up/down in the telescope.

[Caldwell 14]

And there is the black drop effect.....

[Caldwell 14]

Ok 5 hours to go, time to pray to the cloud god

[Caldwell 14]

Second contact

[Azure]

The image will appeared flipped/reversed due to different telescopes/filters/lenses - That's what the astronomers at Mauna Kea say anyway. But we should see it at the top right (as it makes third and fourth contact)

- AZ