Transit of Venus June 5th - You'll be dead before it happens again

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The transit of venus, that is... the planet venus crossing the sun durring the day happens Tuseday June 5th. This is a rare event won't happen again until 2117 so this is your only chance to see it.

Tuesday, June 5 is the last chance in your lifetime to see the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.

Venus won't visibly pass between the Earth and the sun again until 2117, so get your special sun-viewing glasses now. In North America, the transit will start in the hours before sunset on June 5. Viewers in Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe can catch the transit at sunrise on June 6. The transit will begin at about 6:03 p.m. EDT, 5:04 p.m. CDT, 4:05 p.m. MDT and 3:06 p.m. PDT.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/04/transit-venus-offers-last-chance-views/#ixzz1wrHGzWZF

[*Siren*]

Damn, I can't find those glasses anywhere!

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Any local observatory (usually the local science center, like The Detroit Science Center (but is closed right now)

Telescope stores

Welder Supply Stores (Number #14 glass) and they know why your buying it, this usually isnt what welders use en mass.)

I have these

http://tropicalsails.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=2

I would have gotten some off the internet if I thought I needed them a month ago, i thought i was covered.

but I just dug them out and GUESS WHAT... they are scratched to hell and thus useless. Gonna have to do some hardcore calling tommrow. Apparently this type of stuff is sold out all over. Gooodddddd damnit. lol

Im tempted to pay the rapist prices amazon is charging and the rapist shipping to get them by tommrow but im worried they wont show up in time.

Actually... i got a better solution:

Meetup.com

Search for Astronomy meetup and find a local one, they will have better viewing equipment there than these cheapo things (and many of the meetup are at colleges and such)

[Vater Araignee]

Pays to be a welder! I'll just set my auto lens for 14 and when I have me a look it will auto darken.

[LadyKay]

Damn, I can't find those glasses anywhere!

I went to a welding store and got a #14 shade plate for some welding goggles. Make sure it is #14, lower then that will fry your eyes.

[*Siren*]

I went to a welding store and got a #14 shade plate for some welding goggles. Make sure it is #14, lower then that will fry your eyes.

Unfortunately, we don't have a welding store in Windsor. I tried all of the hardware stores, but all they have is #5. I guess I'm shit out of luck.

[*Siren*]

Watch it live here! NASA Transit of Venus

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I actually got some glasses from the neighbor (who I never talk to, was some odd miracle) who had an extra pair ,I failed fucking epicly, I walked in the house, took my meds, and got tired , passed out right through it. Ho-le-shit.

[eatdirt426]

I missed it, it was too cloudy here to see it. I'll probably youtube it later.

[f0rged]

I wasn't even aware that this was going on until about 11pm last night.

...fail.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I wasn't even aware that this was going on until about 11pm last night.

...fail.

Hey at least you have an excuse.

I had an epic fail since I'd been planning on it for like a month.

[LadyKay]

Well I saw it! A wee little black dot on the sun. Makes one feel rather small.