Transit of Venus Tonight in Brooklyn

It’ll be 105 years before it happens again. So you better get some of these special solar glasses and look at the sky tonight.

Why?

Venus will cross paths between the sun and the Earth, and for several hours you should be able to see a tiny dot on the surface of the sun.

Here’s some advice from the Washington Post: “Look west Tuesday evening, June 5, Venus begins to cross the sun at 6:04 p.m. EDT Tuesday evening, as a notch in the sun. By 6:22 p.m., from our perspective, Venus becomes a black dot moving across the solar disc.”

Well, you probably don’t want to stare right at it. You’ll need to get some solar glasses from a Planetarium. “Hello Rose Planetarium Gift Shop, do you still sun glasses in stock?” Maybe they have some at Little Things.