Sky Above My House: 2012-06-03

A casual person might be enjoying a nice walk to lunch under an overcast sky or just business as usual, but none were aware of what has unfolded right above their heads at that moment. According to the acceptable 'buzz' of most informed 'earthlings', the atmosphere was more historical than astronomical - between 06:13 to 12:47 (+0800 GMT) 6th June, our beloved evening star Venus passed between us and the Sun. It's The Venus Transit, a rare event. Owing to its smaller-inside orbit than Earth, it passed us and from now on, becomes the morning star.

In that event, Venus in its 'inferior conjunction' was only 26.9 million miles from us. If you are a Venusian, Earth would light up your sky like a very bright beacon with a 'very shiny moon' beside it - knowing we're a little bigger than Venus does make one proud. If you just knew what it's like to be on the surface of Venus, believe me, you will be proud that you are an earthling! I'm not writing a science journal (you can read that elsewhere) but after surviving much anxiety from the cloud-filled skies and being drenched in sweat from producing these shots, that day something significant did happened above us.

You don't know how hot it is to set-up for this event! With sweat dripping off your eyebrows and forehead - you want to constantly wipe it off to look through the lens. This is my 'DIY solar filter' aka survival blanket over the scope in which the results are in the photos below.