[UPDATE] Don't Get Blinded by Science

Governors State University has generously offered to host a Day of Science for the incoming Advanced Placement Chemistry students at Bloom High School. The final event of the day will be viewing the Transit of Venus with some of GSU’s telescopes and some of Bloom’s telescopes.

The viewing officially begins at 5PM CST one of the parking lots at GSU (whichever is found to have the lowest horizon for the longest viewing), and will continue until sunset. Anyone interested in viewing the Transit can come out after 5PM.

The said that binoculars would work for home-viewing, which is not true. This author tried four different brands with different sized objective lenses
and none worked very well at all. Only the telescopes worked.

If you do your own viewing, please email me any images you collect and they will be posted in the follow-up story later this week. Happy viewing!