Venus Transit

When I got home from work today I hastily constructed a five foot long pin hole projector in order to view the Venus transit.

I had the live broadcast from NASA.com going on the computer while the kids helped me cut out the cardboard and tape it all together.

It worked surprisingly well.  The Sun's diameter was about an inch and the small black dot that was Venus was visible on the projection surface.  We only barely finished it in time. The sun was touching the neighbor's trees by the time we got it going so we could see the trees moving around the edges of the Sun's image.  And a short time later the sun set.

I need to make sure I catch it again in one hundred years.