Observers of the Sun Must Use a Safe Solar Filter

CONTINENTAL CAPERS WILL PROVIDE safe solar filters for non-optical visual use by those who want to view the Sun without optical instruments and search for Venus. (Venus's apparent diameter will be 58 arc sec (one arc sec = 1/3600°.) We will also bring telescopes to observe the transit. Guests can bring their own binoculars or telescopes but each is responsible for supplying their own solar filters to use with their own optical instruments. (Read eye safety.)

A Multimedia Presentation

OUR SCIENTIFIC ESCORT will also treat their guests to a fascinating, educational and entertaining multimedia presentation about the transit before the day of this event. This exciting presentation is for a general audience—no knowledge of astronomy required! This talk will outline topics in simple terms, clear pictures and interesting animations. (Our "approachable expert" has more than forty years communicating science in understandable ways.)

• Learn about one of nature's rare curiosities—an event few have seen before
• Find out why transits were historically important & became a major scientific goal
• Chronicle journeys in quest of this event & discover what resulted
• Discover that you will see a sight so rare no one now alive has ever seen!

Additional Information

TO LEARN MORE, see the following pages by Fred Espenak (open in new windows):

• "Planetary Transits Across the Sun"
• "2004 Transit of Venus."
• "Detailed Figure of the Path of Venus Across the Sun"
• "Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus"
• "Climate Statistics for the Mediterranean" by Jay Anderson
  (and look at Souda Bay, Crete — abt. 15 km or 10 mi east of our location)