Transit of Venus Topic for Thursday Astronomy Society Meeting

If you missed the Transit of Venus Tuesday night, the Minnesota Astronomical Society (MAS) will have club members talk about the extraordinary astronomical event at their regular meeting Thursday, June 7.

The meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. at the , 1910 County Road B W., Roseville. The session is open to the public.

The MAS held a star-gazing party Tuesday at the Onan Observatory in Norwood Young America, where a crowd of several hundred people showed up.

On Tuesday evening, Venus travelled across the face of the Sun going "from an evening object to a morning object in a rare and dramatic event," the MAS said on its website. The planet's transit across the solar disk began around 5 p.m. in the Twin Cities and was visible for about four hours.

The Sun set just before 9 p.m., with "the transit just past the midpoint," MAS said.  The tranist continued until about 11:49 p.m. local time, the group said.

The next Transit of Venus isn't scheduled to occur until 2117, the Society said.

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