Transit
Exciting Astronomical News!
Opal and Agathe were excited about the transit of Mercury today…the closest planet to the sun will be crossing in front of the sun – visible in Victoria and many other places on Earth with the proper scientific equipment!
There it is!
The block twins don’t have a solar-filtered telescope, so Agathe found the Greenwich Observatory’s live feed on the computer…
Yawn
It didn’t seem all that much like astronomy…
Excellent!
…so they set up their telescope…
A little to the left
…and pointed it at the computer…
There it is!!
Quimper Hittys 
A wise decision – even painted eyes can fade in the glare of our closest star!
I think it was a good excuse to set up the telescope too!
How intrepid of the block twins!
Never a dull moment in the Hitty Cupboard!
Lucky girls to have a telescope handy for a rare astronomical event!
They are lucky! and lucky to be able to see the transit of Mercury!
The twins come up with the most unique solutions to situations. How clever of them to point their scope at the computer to get a better view of Mercury line up with the Sun and Earth. I think if anyone could come up with an explanation for “What is Dark Energy” it is them.
Perhaps the Physical Cosmologists and Astronomers should consider studying the twins – they certainly tend to accelerate the expansion of fun in the Hitty Cupboard (which is almost an entire universe to them)!
the block twins are so resourceful!! Thanks for alerting us to this event. Altho I suspect that here in humid cloudy Mo it is not an event we will be involved in.
Too bad the weather was gloomy…it was sunny here, but the block twins looked at the computer live feed not the real sun!