Don't forget Solar eclipse on Sunday May 20

[SvennoJ]

TWRoO said:

SvennoJ said:

oldschoolfool said:
meh,I guess it would be cool to look at,but I just don't see the point. I'll go look at the sunset are something. lol

It sorta makes the moon feel more real then a flat disc moving accross the sky at night.
It puts the solar system into perspective, we're just specks of dust on a giant piece of clockwork.

I think it's a good way of showing the enormous size of the Sun... despite being nearly 400 times further away it rivals it in percieved size.

The Venus transit coming on June 5th demonstrates that even better.
Venus is almost the same size as earth and the sun is still 3.5 times further away then Venus and it looks like this