Re: Venus transit "black drop" effect due to what??

From: Paul Lawler (stargazer_at_kilolaniDOT.net)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 06:08:58 GMT

"Jay Ts" <none@invalid.org> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.09.00.03.23.242241@invalid.org...
> Richard wrote:
> > I and most observers did not see much evidence of this. Despite that,
> > pictures from journals from the 1800s event show this as a marked
effect.
> > What could have caused it to be so apparent back then and not now?
>
> It may be that the black drop effect is almost entirely a
> phenomenon of visual perception, somewhat like an "optical
> illusion".

You can make your own "black drop" effect by bringing your thumb and index
finger together until they almost touch... you will see a ghostly piece of
"pseudo skin" materialize in between them.

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