Grand Valley professors host Venus transit viewings
The transit of Venus is tracked through a telescope that projected an image onto a sheet of paper.
It won't happen for another 105 years. The planet Venus passed directly between the Earth and sun on the evening of June 5.
Steve Mattox, associate professor of geology at Grand Valley State University, hosted several K-12 students, Grand Valley students, and the general public at a viewing of the historic event on June 5.
Doug Furton, professor of physics at Grand Valley, co-hosted another event along the lakeshore with George Jaeger, director of the White Pines Middle School planetarium in Grand Haven.
Both professors provided tools for everyone to see the transit, including high-powered telescopes and live internet streams of the event.
The photo gallery contains a few images from the event in Grand Haven.
