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Captain cook was using a telescope to watch this cross the path of the sun?
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∙ 12y ago
James Cook (not yet a captain at this stage) was sent to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from the vantage point of Tahiti.
The transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, and its unlit side is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus occur in pairs, eight years apart, approximately once every 120 years.
Cook's ship, the 'Endeavour', departed England in August 1768, and arrived in Tahiti in time for his crew and scientists to set up their instrumentation necessary to observe and report on the transit, which occurred on 3 June 1769.
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∙ 12y agoThe answer is Venus
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