Local (to me) photographer Patrick Cullis was filming the Venus Transit last week from Colorado, and got a surprise:
[embed width="610"]http://vimeo.com/43523342[/embed]
Pretty cool. That's part of a longer video
he made of the transit that's nice, too. While I'm at it, he made a really pretty time lapse of the sky over Boulder, including footage of Venus and Jupiter setting over the Flatiron mountains; it's well worth a moment of your time to watch. You can see the moons of Jupiter, too!
[embed width="610"]http://vimeo.com/42052493[/embed]
The Flatirons are huge slabs of rock
hundreds of meters high that used to be seabed, but were pushed nearly vertical
when the Rocky Mountains broke through. They make a stunning backdrop to these videos by Patrick, too.
