The Transit Of Venus And…?

FROM “AMERICAN DIGEST”

HEAVENLY BODIES, BUT WHICH ONES?

AN EMAIL THIS MORNING asked: “Can you guess what this is?”

The broad “guess” isn’t hard if you’ve been aware that last week we could see, if we lived in the right place, something that no one alive has seen in the heavens: The Transit of Venus.

But if you lived in exactly the right place during the Transit of Venus, you saw something more, something that, when you think about it, is truly a miracle.

But what is it that you are seeing in this picture? Take a guess. Answer tomorrow if the comments don’t catch it before then.

7 thoughts on “The Transit Of Venus And…?”

  3. Come on Ricky, “truly a miracle”, it’s can’t be a single arm of a V of geese, that’s too mundane to be miraculous. So, it’s of course, a Choir of Angels, commuting to some Angelic endeavour.

  4. …I was under the mistaken impression it was actually a photo, so I guessed geese.  It isn’t a photo; it’s a composite in which a single object actually appears multiple times in the photo.   My rough calculation is that the transit of our mystery object, now that I know what it is, took about 5 to 8 seconds.  The miracle was catching it at all.  Very impressive shot.  

  5. I had no idea what it could be. (Though a herd of UFO’s crossed my mind, then I thought, more likely that it’s those flying toasters on some sort of revenge mission.) But it’s because I thought it was a single photograph. I discounted geese, they just don’t look like that.

    I don’t really have an idea of how large it is, but it surprised me that it would be that large, it always just looks like a dot when I watch it at night.

    Aaargh, it’s so hard not saying what it is, didn’t the poster say he was coming back to tell us what it was? I don’t want to ruin it for all the masses who must be checking every day, but don’t want to follow the spoiler link! The suspense must be bringing the hit-counter through the roof. I have to go make dinner Ricky, I don’t have time to ‘read the words’ in your other story in order to vote, but I can’t wait for the pictures.

  6. .
    …should not reach the front page until it’s rewritten. It was an interesting assortment of pictures, and the oddball photos were neat distractions. But a cover article should be presented in the form of a statement, not a question.

    All I could think was Tattoo yelling, “De plane, de plane!” or Captain Kirk looking at the Enterprise and saying, “My god, Bones, what have I done?”

    jon

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