Heads up crew! Incoming transmission from CSIRO, Education! My query to them was basically why some photos and movies showing Venus moving over the Sun's disk showed it moving across the top from left to right and others showed it going across the lower half of the disc from right to left!
I sent an "Help! Please explain" to the enquiries email on their Questions and Answers page and it was quite promptly passed on to their Education department. Today I got a reply from none other than Darren Osborne, the Editor of "The Helix" magizine, the official magazine of the Double Helix Club, the kids club of the CSIRO.
Kirok
I’m sorry you weren’t able to access our live webcast. We reached our limit of close to 50,000 feeds quite quickly. The slashdot.org website may have contributed, as you suggested.
Our images through the video feed did show Venus crossing the Sun from the bottom left, heading right. This was because the image was magnified by an eight inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. The still image was taken with a digital camera and zoom lens, which correctly show Venus entering from the top right and moving towards the left.
I haven’t seen the Lancashire images, but as you suggest, the image would be rotated according to our position on the Earth.
All the best,
Darren
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Darren Osborne
Editor, The Helix
CSIRO Education
PO Box 225, Dickson, ACT, 2602, AUSTRALIA
Ph +61 2 6276 6472 Fx +61 2 6276 6641
www.csiro.au/helix/magazine/
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Did you get the hints about the photos with trees in them? Dooh! Of course this would be proof of which way was up!
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