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Venus Transit Observing

Transit of Venus
June 5 - June 6, 2012
9:00 pm - 3:00 am
Smith Lab Observatory

The OSU Astronomy Department will be hosting a public program to observe the Transit of Venus across the Sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from 5:00-11:00pm on the OSU Main Campus in Columbus Ohio.  We will be holding a number of activities to mark this rare event, including transit observing with specially equipped solar telescopes for safe viewing, public talks, and a post-transit star party to observe planets and star clusters in the spring sky.

This program is free and open to the public.

Please see the OSU Astronomy observing programs webpage for more details.