{"id":592,"date":"2012-06-06T20:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2012-06-06T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T00:32:44","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_593\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/16026-sdo-ultra-high-definition-view-2012-venus-transit-path-sequence.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-593  \" title=\"venus-transit-sequence-1600\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus-transit-sequence-1600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus-transit-sequence-1600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/venus-transit-sequence-1600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SDO&#39;s Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit --- Path Sequence. Image credit: NASA\/SDO\/AIA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Was there any doubt that I&#8217;d be looking for a wallpaper featuring yesterday&#8217;s Transit of Venus? I&#8217;m happy to report that we didn&#8217;t have to rely on SDO images (as spectacular as they are!) to view it. We had mostly clear skies, warm evening temperatures, and lots of viewing equipment. I had my doubts as to whether we&#8217;d be able to view it with the naked eye&#8212;that is, the naked eye with protection&#8212;but it was easy to see through eclipse glasses. I used a solar projector made with a pair of binoculars. That was a last-minute project, but it made beautiful images, complete with cloud cover, sun spots, and Venus. We attended a public viewing event for part of the evening, courtesy of the DNR, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainbyte.com\/stargazers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stonebelt Stargazers<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.indiana.edu\/astroclub\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana University Astronomy Club<\/a>, so we also had some excellent views through 8&#8243; and 10&#8243; telescopes. You can see a few photographs, including one from the solar projector showing Venus against the backdrop of the Sun, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snjr22\/sets\/72157630062492308\/\" target=\"_blank\">my flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to download today&#8217;s wallpaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was there any doubt that I&#8217;d be looking for a wallpaper featuring yesterday&#8217;s Transit of Venus? I&#8217;m happy to report that we didn&#8217;t have to rely on SDO images (as spectacular as they are!) to view it. We had mostly clear skies, warm evening temperatures, and lots of viewing equipment. I had my doubts as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-nasa","category-news","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}