Almost finished here....
My pinhole projector wasn't particularly effective. The image of the sun was too small for me to be able to spot an even tinier Venus making its way over (the above image is from here).
At least the webcasts on the internet didn't let me down. I watched the last part of it on a web camera based in the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (which had a bit of commentary as well). And I have just learned from the very well informed commentator there that even though there won't be another Transit of Venus in my lifetime, there will be Transits of Mercury across the sun in 2016 and 2019. Cool. If I'm still blogging then, I'll make sure you all know exactly when they're on...
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