Complete cloud cover here. Thats one thing you get used to in the UK. Most astronomical events are on the other side of a thick cloud layer.

>As it turned out, the forcast was wrong! The skies cleared up a bit, not entirely, but enough blue sky holes to get some decent viewing. We made a viewer out of a box and binoculars. It was a pretty cool thing to see!!
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>>>Unfortunately, the entire Pacific Northwest is forecast to be cloudy ... we won't even be able to drive to a non-cloudy area for the viewing. Unless the forecase it wrong, I guess I'll just have to watch a webcast. Darn!
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>>>~~Bonnie
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>>Drive to Kansas. We're forecast for clear.
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>>>>Transit of Venus in front of the Sun, last time this century. As with a solar eclipse, looking directly at the Sun is dangerous - I am not sure whether there would be much to see, anyway, but specially designed, extremely dark glasses might be used. I am not sure whether welder's glasses are dark enough. And looking through a telescope or binoculars is VERY dangerous - the concentrated light is enough to start a fire. However, if you do have a telescope, an image can be projected on a piece of paper.