No royalists in space

All I wanted was a once in a lifetime cosmic event to balance out the weeks and weeks of incontinent royalist propaganda, and I couldn't even get that... That's Cameron's Britain for you... Never mind... Here's is a link (I'm having trouble with posting pictures at the moment) showing the Transit of Venus as seen from various parts of Eastern Europe and Asia. In January Venus was as far from the Sun as it could appear from Earth. It took months to reach this point, but the actual transit took less than two hours. Once you get a vaguely appreciable context you can see just how fast these objects are moving but how far they have to go.