View Transit of Venus Through Pinhole Projector
The view of Transit of Venus 2012 should start around 7 p.m. Tuesday evening.
There are many ways to watch Tuesday's transit of Venus, but all should be done safely. Public Relations Manager of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Christine Douglass recommends watching the transit at a planetarium or a program by a university astronomy department or by visiting NASA's website for the live-streaming broadcast. However, if you want to go the do-it-yourself route, you can make a pinhole camera.Los Altos Patch editor L.A. Chung explains how she made the following, simple pinhole projector: There are variations on this. You can make it out of a long, narrow box. We went for no-fuss. It's the principle that matters here: You can follow along with the pictures. We got all the materials from the stuff in our recycling …
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