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Aside from sailing and celestial navigation my other passion is
astronomy. My homemade 8" newtonian reflector, which I constructed in 1963
with an Edmund Optics kit, worked wonderfully, projecting the image of the
sun onto a piece of white paper. The image was roughly 10 inches across
allowing many people to view at once. Venus appeared as a black dot about
the size of a pea. I live in North Florida and participated in this viewing
event along with several other members of the Alachua Astronomy Club in
Gainesville. We started viewing at dawn, 06:28 EDT and saw almost an hour
of the transit before it ended. We had the viewing on the top floor of a
parking garage on the campus of the University of Florida.
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