DAY 71 - Wednesday April 23rd - Last day in Spain till June.

Another hot day with blue sky. I hope its like this in the UK tomorrow..... I am going back via Murcia Airport after a drive up the AP7 Toll Motorway - usually only see half a dozen cars during the hour and a half drive.

I was reading the article by Allan Chapman in the 2004 Yearbook of Astronomy and reading about the 1639 transit so I thought I would produce an animation of the event using The SkyX Software.

This is as it would appear from Lancashire on 4th December 1639. (In fact as this occurred before the calendar change from the Julian Calendar so would actually have been the 24th November then!)

In 1761 there was another Venus Transit shown below.