On Tuesday 8th June 2004 the planet Venus crosssed the Sun's disk as seen from Earth. It cut into the solar disk at about 6:20am in the morning and passed off the other limb at about 12:23am. The last occasion on which this happened was 1882, over a century ago.
A transit of Venus is like a solar eclipse, but instead of the Moon being in line between the Earth and Sun it is the planet Venus.

Pupils at King's had the chance to witness this spectacle using solar viewing glasses and also via the projection from Mr. Higgins' telescope.

Captions of photographs - top to bottom
1. photograph of the projection at around 6.45 a.m. Venus is visible as a tiny black dot!
2. the image is projected onto a piece of card for viewing
3. 4th year pupils observe the projection
4. 5th year pupils observe the sun through the solar viewers

Dr S Bosworth

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