From: "Howard" <howard.fink@nyu.edu>

Date: June 10, 2012 9:13:26 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: sidewalk astronomy

First, the images posted here on the astro iidc site have been breathtaking.  Day after day the scenes of Venus silhouetted leave me in awe. I don't recall such exquisite imagery after the 2004 transit.  

I participated in a public event at the High Line park in New York.  I made the Sun Gun (on Sunday) so everyone with a camera or phone could take their own picture of the transit simultaneously, rather than one at a time with a sun funnel.  It was a great success, with hundreds of people snapping away in the brief intervals when the clouds parted.

finkh.wordpress.com has some pictures.