I hope folks out there had a chance to view the transit of Venus across the solar disk yesterday. I was lucky enough to see it through a 6 inch refractor and a Coronado H-alpha solar telescope. It’s always fun to see celestial mechanics in operation.
NASA has a video of the transit acrosst the sun taken at various wavelengths. Evidence of sunspot activity is much more pronounced at these wavelengths.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
I see you had no comments… exactly like my Facebook page when I posted this same video. The Great Masses, indeed…
I guess it’d be more interesting to the Great Masses if Jennifer Lopez’ bum transited the sun. There would have been a rush at emergency rooms everywhere with cases of acute sun blindness due to a conjunction of heavenly bodies.