Observing Notesfrom the Tuckahoe IrregularsThe Northerner's in Hockessin area had made plans to observe from Delcastle Rec. Park, but when we arrived the placed was covered in thick fog ! We quickly packed up and head up Limestone road to the Pike Creek Shopping Center to some excellent viewing. We could see the disk of the planet naked eye through the hazy. We saw a flattening of the disk at 3 contact but not the "black drop". A few minutes later we could see Sunlight shining through Venus' atmosphere as it out lined the section of the planet that was off of the disk of the Sun ! I was surprised at how large Venus was against the Sun, compared to the transit of Mercury I viewed as a kid back in 1973 were it was just a dot. I'll remember this one for a long time and what made it even better was observing it with good friends ! Dave |