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Friends of the Zeiss
P.O. Box 1041
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230-1041 U.S.A.
Telephone: 412-561-7876
Electronic Mail: < [log in to unmask] >
Internet Web Site: < http://www.friendsofthezeiss.org
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NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release: 2004 June 3
For more information -- Glenn A. Walsh:
Daytime: E-Mail < [log in to unmask] >
Evening: Telephone 412-561-7876
SAFE PUBLIC VIEWING OF RARE ASTRONOMICAL EVENT WITH
8-INCH TELESCOPE AT DUQUESNE INCLINE OBSERVATION DECK
EVENT LAST SEEN IN 1882
Pittsburgh, June 3– Safe public viewing, using an
8-inch Celestron reflector telescope, of a rare
Transit of the Planet Venus across the image of the
surface of the Sun, which has not occurred since 1882,
will be offered free-of-charge on the outdoor
observation deck outside of the Upper Station of The
Duquesne Incline on Pittsburgh’s Mt. Washington, just
after sunrise (best viewing 6:15-7:00 a.m.) on
Tuesday, 2004 June 8, *provided clouds do not block
the Sun*.
A solar transit of the planet Venus is extremely rare,
as it only happens twice, each spaced eight years
apart during a period of more than one hundred years!
Indeed, only six such events have occurred since the
1609 invention of the astronomical telescope (1631,
1639, 1761, 1769, 1874, and 1882).
The last solar transit of Venus occurred on 1882 Dec.
6. The next one will occur on 2012 June 6. However,
after 2012 there will not be another solar transit of
Venus until 2117 Dec. 11!
CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE NEWS RELEASE:
<
http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/venustransit/NRVenusTransit3.htm >
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Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] >
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh:
< http://www.planetarium.cc >
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago:
< http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear:
< http://johnbrashear.tripod.com >
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries:
< http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc >
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh:
< http://www.incline.cc >
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