Venus Transit
8th June 2004
On the morning of 8th June, 2004, the orbit of Venus took it directly between the earth and the sun for the first time since 1882. Clear blue skies meant that almost all our school students at Beau Soleil College, in Villars, were able to see something that no one alive had ever seen before...

Above: The sun and Venus through leaves, projected onto the wall of my house at about 8.00 am.

Below: Two pictures from later in the morning.

Below: Beau Soleil students (appropriately) learn the only truly safe way to observe the sun.