Sun spot
We joined hundreds of Clevelanders at Edgewater Park after supper to watch a once-in-a-lifetime event, the Transit of Venus.
If you look at the bright round image of the sun projected through the telescope, you'll notice a little black BB at about 1 o'clock. That's Venus.
This alignment of Venus between the sun and earth happens about once every hundred years, so it seemed worth a trip to the park to see it.
Sun dog
After looking though a few telescopes and seeing many more projected images, Joanne and I settled in our folding chairs with a thermos of coffee and watched the sun set.
We got to see another of the sun's tricks, a vertical sort-of-rainbow called a "Sun Dog."
In the photo it's slightly right of center, the bright area above the tallest apartment building. You can clearly see the red-orange on the right edge of the sun dog. The colors aren't nearly as pure, nor are there as many, as in a true rainbow. A sun dog may also be called a "mock sun."
My sunshine
This panorama (made with Photosynth, of course) shows the view from our chairs near the lake's edge. Joanne's red hat livens things up.
