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Transit of Venus across the Sun: Rare astronomical event, 6 p.m. daytime viewing today at the Asheville Chamber parking lot

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Image borrowed from the Astronomy Club of Asheville

From the Astronomy Club of Asheville, a great family event:

Come see this last-chance-in-your-lifetime event on Tuesday evening, June 5th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. — the transit of the planet Venus across the disk of our Sun.

If you miss this Venus transit, you’ll have to wait until the year 2117 for the next oppoutunity!

Our club will have safe solar telescopes set up for public viewing at the west end of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce parking lot (weather permitting).

See this presentation for more details and an explanation about the Venus transit.

For a map to the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, click here
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From Wikipedia:

Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena.[1] They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.

Read more about the transit of Venus here.

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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