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Groups ventured to the roof of the Science Center to witness the transit first-hand using an array of historic and modern telescopes and observing equipment after sunrise at 5:09 a.m. Downstairs in Lecture Hall B, attendees waiting to view listened to talks highlighting the science of transits, Winthrop’s historic observations, and new applications of transits in cutting-edge research to detect extrasolar planets. Participants also watched a live projection from the roof of the transit-in-progress and live images from locations around the world. Some regions enjoyed more daylight hours for viewing...
...transit can be thought of as a mini-eclipse, with Venus appearing as a small black dot moving across the Sun’s surface and blocking a small portion...
...Wheatland Curator of Harvard’s Collection of Scientific Instruments. Schechner, who has been studying Harvard’s early work in the sciences since her undergraduate years, said she went back into the archives this year to learn more about Winthrop and his transit observations, and came up with the idea of using his original apparatus to view the phenomenon in our own time...
...group saw Venus cross the sun’s disk briefly using special solar filter glasses before the sun moved behind the clouds for the remaining duration of the transit...
...alum of the Harvard Band, Schechner asked the ensemble to play John Philip Sousa’s little-known “Transit of Venus March,” to add extra color to the scientific and historical aspects...