Transit of Venus

Today is a very exciting day because Venus is moving past the sun.  It is called the Transit of Venus.  It will take 6 hours for Venus to move past the sun and we can only see this once every 107 years.  We're not allowed to look directly at the sun because it hurts our eyes. 

One of the Dads from our school is called Mr Doblin and he is a scientist.  He brought some special equipment to school today so the kids could look at the Transit of Venus.  We saw a circle of light with a black dot on it.  The circle of light is the sun.  The black dot is Venus.