{"id":18187,"date":"2012-06-01T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=18187"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:07:10","slug":"ut-to-celebrate-transit-of-venus-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/06_01_2012\/ut-to-celebrate-transit-of-venus-june-5","title":{"rendered":"UT to celebrate transit of Venus June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venus will pass between the sun and Earth Tuesday, June 5. This rare alignment will not happen again until 2117.<\/p>\n

The University of Toledo Ritter Planetarium will celebrate this event with observing starting at 5:45 p.m. in McMaster Hall Room 2002.<\/p>\n

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The planet Venus will appear as a small dot traveling slowly across the sun during the transit.<\/p><\/div>During the transit, Venus will appear as a small dot slowly gliding across the sun.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will use our Heliostat solar telescope to safely project a large image of the sun on to a screen,\u201d said Alex Mak, associate director of Ritter Planetarium.<\/p>\n

The planet named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty will begin its transit about 6:03 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably the most exciting moment and the official start of the transit,\u201d Mak said. \u201cUnfortunately, the transit won\u2019t end until a few hours after sunset here in Toledo.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the Heliostat projection in McMaster Hall, visitors may view the transit with small instruments on the lawn before the sun sets behind the buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may stay for a few minutes and catch a glimpse, or you can follow the transit with us until local sunset,\u201d Mak said.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s cloudy, a web feed of the transit from a location with better weather will be projected in McMaster Hall.<\/p>\n

Mak cautioned: \u201cNever view the sun directly without appropriate safety measures as serious damage, including blindness, can occur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about how to safely see the spectacle here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Free parking will be available in the large lot on the east side of McMaster Hall.<\/p>\n

For more information on the free, public viewing event, call Mak at 419.530.2650.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t miss the celestial spectacle: Venus will travel between the sun and Earth Tuesday, June 5. Ritter Planetarium will hold a viewing event starting at 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}