After a day of overcast skies Tuesday the clouds parted at about 6:45 p.m. over Central Alberta to give way for a planetary spectacle that will not be repeated again until 2117. The Transit of Venus has drawn stargazers around the world to look upward and watch as the planet Venus passes in front of the Sun. Because of the shape and speed of Venus’ orbit around the sun and its relationship to Earth’s annual trip, transits occur in pairs separated by more than a century.
After a day of overcast skies Tuesday the clouds parted at about 6:45 p.m. over Central Alberta to give way for a planetary spectacle that will not be repeated again until 2117. The Transit of Venus has drawn stargazers around the world to look upward and watch as the planet Venus passes in front of the Sun. Because of the shape and speed of Venus’ orbit around the sun and its relationship to Earth’s annual trip, transits occur in pairs separated by more than a century.
