http://www.transitofvenus.org/

So, I'm sorta keen to try seeing this. Unfortunately my family telescope is in storage a few thousand miles away over in Real America. This means one of two options:

1) Buy the dinky glasses to look at the sun. I would have to buy $25 worth for 25 glasses, at least according to that site. And I guess find a bunch of friends to come with so that I'm not wallowing in a pile of cardboard glasses.

2) Construct a system to project the image through binoculars onto a screen. For some reason I have two high-powered pairs of binoculars, including an excellent 50-year old set of Zeiss binoculars with 8x magnification.

The problem is I would have to buy a tripod of some sort, then build-out something to hold the screen perpendicular to the binocular eyepieces so that I can properly aim/focus the binoculars on the sun without requiring four hands.

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Anyone have a sense of whether either system will yield substantially better viewing? Anyone else excited?

Here's the transit in June 2004: