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 SST - Swedish 1m Solar Telescope June 7 12:53 UT La Palma, (Spain) |  Test image of the Sun June 7, 14:00 UT 14-inch Celestron AGAPE - ESO HQ (Garching, Germany) |  SOHO LASCO - C2 (ESA) | |||
| Latest Comment (June 7, 19:20 UT) : The image from the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on Tenerife (left) shows the so-called "granulation", cells of hot gas (hundreds of kilometres across) moving around near the visible "surface" of the Sun. The dark feature in the lower part of that image is a "sunspot", a region somewhat cooler than the surroundings. Venus is now visible in the C2-image from SOHO-LASCO (right), approaching the Sun from the left. A test photo of the Sun (middle) was obtained by the ESO amateur astronomers (AGAPE) in preparation of the observations during the transit. While you are preparing for tomorrow's event, why don't you get into the right mood by listening to John Philip Sousa's "Venus Transit March" from 1882? |  OTHER WEBSITES |  | |||
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