A View Of Venus

The Transit of Venus is one of the rarest predictable celestial events, and it happened last night June 4. If you missed it, sorry - it is not expected to happen again until 2117.

A "transit" of Venus occurs when Venus passes between us and the Sun in such a way that we can see Venus's silhouette backlit by the Sun's brilliant light.

The light is so bright, in fact, that people were advised not to look directly at the sun with their naked eyes. It could damage your eyes.

Bob Koch, a resident of the subdivision in Grayslake, used his binoculars and a white piece of paper as a safe way for him and his neighbors Bill and Sue Morris to view the Transit of Venus safely.

"Here is my neighbor's innovative way to take a look at Venus crossing the sun," Morris said. "He used his binoculars to catch the sun and then the image reflected on a piece of white board. You could see two images of the sun with the small dot (venus) in the lower right hand corner."

Morris and they enjoyed the rare chance to see Venus and he captured this picture with his phone at about 7 p.m. June 5.