Observing Reports

June 8, 2004; 06:30

2004 Transit of Venus from Point Judith

All of a sudden the blackness of space outside of the solar disk seemed to drip inwards towards the disk of Venus approaching the solar limb. It was a great phenomenon to observe. Slowly but surely (four or five seconds to this observer) the effect vanished as Venus' image began to exit the solar disk. We watched right up to the very end until that little notch of the planet's disk, like a little bite had been taken out of the sun, disappeared off the Sun's edge until 2012.