Pioneering American astronomer, David Rittenhouse, was born 8 April 1732 #historyofastronomy #histSTM #transitofvenus
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/and-then-he-missed-it-david-rittenhouse-and-the-transit-of-venus-1769/

Pioneering American astronomer, David Rittenhouse, was born 8 April 1732 #historyofastronomy #histSTM #transitofvenus
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/and-then-he-missed-it-david-rittenhouse-and-the-transit-of-venus-1769/

The first image is before the swirl abstract and the second is with #Venus as a black dot on the sun. On June 5, 2012 the world was treated to one of the rarest sights in astronomy, the #TransitofVenus which was an #astronomical #phenomena.Venus passes directly between the #sun and earth and in the second image you can see the little black dot near top right of the sun which is Venus. Not AI
See here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/fire-in-the-sky-debbie-oppermann.html
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/light-in-light-debbie-oppermann.html
#SpringIntoArt #sunset #artwork #photography

Enjoying the #BloodMoon #eclipse except the eyepiece on the telescope is non-functional so any images I’ve taken with my unaugmented phone would make even Percival Lowell cringe. So here’s a picture of the #TransitOfVenus from 2012 instead.