Thread: apparent sizes of venus and teh sun during transit
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Old 17-05-2012, 03:31 PM
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From http://www.astronomy.org.gg/venustransitsa.htm


"The angular diameter of Venus will be 58".6, about 3% of the Sun's 1888" diameter."

So will it be visible to the 'naked' (ie using solar filter only) eye?
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