{"id":1843,"date":"2012-06-06T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2012-07-30T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:27:57","slug":"venus-transit-5-6-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/blog\/venus-transit-5-6-june-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Transit ~ 5-6 June 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a series of pictures of the transit of Venus, snapped from Port Meadow in Oxford early this morning.  There was a huge patch of cloud right where the sun was rising &#8211; and I was sure that I was not going to see a thing.  But then, luckily the clouds cleared for a brief moment, a bird decided to grace the sky, and here is the picture.  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There was a huge patch of cloud right where the sun was rising &#8211; and I was sure that I was not going to see a thing. 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