Upcoming Venus transit

Hi all,

For the upcoming Venus transit, I am having trouble determining where in the telescope field the first contact will appear. Transit web sites show illustrations but are these reversed for a telescope, flipped for a diagonal, etc? I will be viewing nearly straight up to the zenith from Waimea, HI, using a Televue 85 and a Coronado 60 each with a Canon DSLR attached. A large website is giving what I think are nonsense data for my location

http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/where-when/local-transit-times/

Cheers

RH

You may need to invest in a planetarium program like Starry Nights. It's very valuable for a situation like this. I use the program to locate comets and correctly identify asteroids and moons around planets. During astrophotography the program can become even more valuable. Here's a pic I took in 2004 of the transit. Best of luck with your efforts June 5th. Martin

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