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The day on 6 June 2012 will begin with a rare sight in the sky. The sun will rise with a round black dot of Venus, like a small bindi, on its face. This event called transit of Venus occurs only twice in 100 year duration, separated by 8 years. Its last occurrence was in June 2004 so whatever we will see on 6 June will not repeat for next 100 years!
We decided to inform about this to our children and parents so that they don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. On 1 may, the day of the school result, we set up a small corner in Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan with some informative posters, a ball mirror solar projector to get the image of the sun and some solar filters. Our science teacher invited everyone to be present on 6 June on the Phaltan aerodrome. We also plan to put a few posters in Phaltan so that everyone can be a part of this festival of Venus.
A website by Navnirmiti, www.daytimeastronomy.com is a very good source of information about how the transit of Venus takes place, its history and safe ways of viewing it.