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Is this really needed? Surely it could be part of the Transit of Venus page? : porge 14:09, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
i saw many times — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.186.181.196 ( talk) 00:44, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
This article is being way to instructional. It's kind of early for that. TheOtherSiguy 17:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I've flagged the section about Tahiti because it sounds an awful lot like it's taken out of a travel ad or the like. I don't necessarily think the section should be removed, but it certainly needs to sound more encylopedic. I'll look around for some sources, but if anyone can contribute, feel free. Thanks! Mattmpg23 ( talk) 20:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
The text: ""Sun to same scale as planets". This note refers not to the size of the graphical representations of the planets but rather to the size of their orbits relative to the graphical representation of the Sun", can't be right. The diameter of the Sun is less than a percent of the distance between Earth and the Sun, which is clearly different from the scale of the picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.163.50.146 ( talk) 18:08, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Why is this picture so prominent? Shouldn't the first picture be something more-directly related to the transit? I don't get it. Rsduhamel ( talk) 01:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Misuse of " time zone". The offset to be added depends not only on the time zone but on the state of summer time. 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 11:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Take the simplest case, North Pole. There surely is polar day. Sun is visible all the day around. Difference of visible location of Venus relative to Sun is less than the size of disk of Venus even for the most distant points on Earth (diameter of Venus in near to that of Earth, and its distance to Sun is substantially closer), while the pictures show that Venus will cross Sun's disk achieving distances from its border much more than Venus's diameter.
Upd. North Pole may be surrounded by detatched area of all-phases visibility, unshown for practical irrelevance. But there must be a meridional tier extending to the Pole where at least a part of the transit is visible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.126.184.69 ( talk) 08:15, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
My photo from NE China is here: http://imgur.com/XMtrk
It's not as nice as the one in the article, but the sun is yellow ^_^
The Masked Booby ( talk) 09:27, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Are all these images necessary? They all feature the same event from different perspectives around earth, the difference between each picture apart from the time it was taken at and the position of Venus is barely discernible. All these images can easily be accessed from a WikiCommons link to the Transit of Venus category which is already at the bottom of this article. YuMa NuMa Contrib 13:56, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I agree that we have WAY too many images on this page. We have 37 images at the bottom of the page, and most of them look the same or similar, and some of them (like the Kazahkstan image) are fuzzy and really don't illustrate the event all that well. (And, as YuMa said, all of these images are in Commons.) This is an encyclopedia, not PhotoBucket. Sleddog116 ( talk) 19:05, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye on this article for a few days. I think I'm going to go ahead and cut some of the obviously-unneeded pictures now (based on my reasoning above, which doesn't seem to have too much dissent), but if anyone disagrees with the ones I remove, just revert me - my feelings won't be hurt ;) Sleddog116 ( talk) 22:01, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Transit.Woodstock.MD.20120605.jpg is upside down. Maybe that's how it looked in a telescope eyepiece, but that's not what one would have seen through binoculars or with the naked eye. 63.234.238.4 ( talk) 15:09, 8 June 2012 (UTC) June 8, 2012
It would be nice to make a collage of some of these pictures taken from different latitudes (e.g., Sweden, India, Australia) to illustrate the parallax effect. -- İnfoCan ( talk) 16:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Editors and readers may be interested in commenting on the issues raised in the Transit of Venus, 2012 thread at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Richerman (talk) 12:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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Is this really needed? Surely it could be part of the Transit of Venus page? : porge 14:09, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
i saw many times — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.186.181.196 ( talk) 00:44, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
This article is being way to instructional. It's kind of early for that. TheOtherSiguy 17:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I've flagged the section about Tahiti because it sounds an awful lot like it's taken out of a travel ad or the like. I don't necessarily think the section should be removed, but it certainly needs to sound more encylopedic. I'll look around for some sources, but if anyone can contribute, feel free. Thanks! Mattmpg23 ( talk) 20:33, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
The text: ""Sun to same scale as planets". This note refers not to the size of the graphical representations of the planets but rather to the size of their orbits relative to the graphical representation of the Sun", can't be right. The diameter of the Sun is less than a percent of the distance between Earth and the Sun, which is clearly different from the scale of the picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.163.50.146 ( talk) 18:08, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Why is this picture so prominent? Shouldn't the first picture be something more-directly related to the transit? I don't get it. Rsduhamel ( talk) 01:11, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Misuse of " time zone". The offset to be added depends not only on the time zone but on the state of summer time. 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 11:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Take the simplest case, North Pole. There surely is polar day. Sun is visible all the day around. Difference of visible location of Venus relative to Sun is less than the size of disk of Venus even for the most distant points on Earth (diameter of Venus in near to that of Earth, and its distance to Sun is substantially closer), while the pictures show that Venus will cross Sun's disk achieving distances from its border much more than Venus's diameter.
Upd. North Pole may be surrounded by detatched area of all-phases visibility, unshown for practical irrelevance. But there must be a meridional tier extending to the Pole where at least a part of the transit is visible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.126.184.69 ( talk) 08:15, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
My photo from NE China is here: http://imgur.com/XMtrk
It's not as nice as the one in the article, but the sun is yellow ^_^
The Masked Booby ( talk) 09:27, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Are all these images necessary? They all feature the same event from different perspectives around earth, the difference between each picture apart from the time it was taken at and the position of Venus is barely discernible. All these images can easily be accessed from a WikiCommons link to the Transit of Venus category which is already at the bottom of this article. YuMa NuMa Contrib 13:56, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I agree that we have WAY too many images on this page. We have 37 images at the bottom of the page, and most of them look the same or similar, and some of them (like the Kazahkstan image) are fuzzy and really don't illustrate the event all that well. (And, as YuMa said, all of these images are in Commons.) This is an encyclopedia, not PhotoBucket. Sleddog116 ( talk) 19:05, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye on this article for a few days. I think I'm going to go ahead and cut some of the obviously-unneeded pictures now (based on my reasoning above, which doesn't seem to have too much dissent), but if anyone disagrees with the ones I remove, just revert me - my feelings won't be hurt ;) Sleddog116 ( talk) 22:01, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Transit.Woodstock.MD.20120605.jpg is upside down. Maybe that's how it looked in a telescope eyepiece, but that's not what one would have seen through binoculars or with the naked eye. 63.234.238.4 ( talk) 15:09, 8 June 2012 (UTC) June 8, 2012
It would be nice to make a collage of some of these pictures taken from different latitudes (e.g., Sweden, India, Australia) to illustrate the parallax effect. -- İnfoCan ( talk) 16:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Editors and readers may be interested in commenting on the issues raised in the Transit of Venus, 2012 thread at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Richerman (talk) 12:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit (304 Angstrom Full Disc 02).jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 5, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-06-05. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 23:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
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