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...participated in the Festival of the Transit of Venus, an event surrounding a rare astronomical occurrence that drew a community of astronomy fans to brave the early morning hours on Tuesday. Gathering at the Science Center, a diverse crowd observed the planet Venus traverse the disk of the Sun, and celebrated with a series of scientific and historical talks chronicling Harvard’s role in significant observations reaching back hundreds of years...
Observers viewed the event through the original telescope of Harvard astronomer John Winthrop, whose observations of a Venus transit in 1769 from Harvard Yard helped determine the distance from the Earth...
...Transit For the first time in more than 100 years, Venus crosses in front...
...WATCH THIS EVENT WITHOUT ADEQUATE EYE PROTECTION The sun may look dim through sunglasses, unexposed photographic film and CDs, but it can cause permanent blindness. The only safe way to look at the transit is through No. 14 welder's glasses or a Mylar filter certified for sun observation (some manufacturers have made such filters into goggles). If you aren't absolutely sure that's what you've got, you can avoid frying your retinas by making a pinhole projector, right, and watching indirectly...
...English astronomer named Jeremiah Horrocks, left, studied Kepler's planetary tables and realized a transit would happen within a month. In 1639, he and a friend are the first humans known to have seen...