Or you might have to wait 113 years!<\/p>\n
For us East Coasters, the transit will be in progress by the time we can see the sun – it’ll be starting at 1:13 AM our time, and ending at 7:25 AM. Sunrise in Worcester is 5:11 AM.<\/p>\n
West Coasters won’t see this one at all<\/a>, but don’t worry, they’ll have a better view of the 2012 transit<\/a>, and they won’t have to get up early – that one’s in the evening.<\/p>\n DON’T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! Use #14 welding glass, or an indirect method.<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s NASA’s page about the transit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another good site.<\/a><\/p>\n The Ecotarium<\/a> is having a SkyWatch sleepover<\/a>!<\/p>\n The last one was 122 years ago, before movies were invented. Here’s a movie of the last transit.<\/a> (How?<\/a> Massachusetts (yay!) astronomer David Todd made 147 photographs of the last transit on glass plates. In 2003, some astronomers at the Lick Observatory turned those plates into a QuickTime movie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or you might have to wait 113 years! For us East Coasters, the transit will be in progress by the time we can see the sun – it’ll be starting at 1:13 AM our time, and ending at 7:25 AM. Sunrise in Worcester is 5:11 AM. West Coasters won’t see this one at all, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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