Like all nerds I spent today trying to see the transit of Venus across the Sun. My early attempts from home proved futile so Gael (our French couchsurfer) and I cooked up an ingenious method of enhancing our viewing apparatus until we could see the transit! As with any engineering solution it included the bathroom mirror, a chair, the lid of a jigsaw puzzle and a map of Australia.
Okay, it wasn’t he most elegant solution but it worked, the extra distance gained by the mirror made the image of the Sun large enough o see Venus
The photo didn’t work out, but we could see the spot of Venus on the image of the Sun.
MacGyver would be proud! We just got welding glass from down the road for $2 – worked perfectly