The Astronomy Club will host a planetarium show about the transit of Venus during the month of May, but there is no exact date yet, according to club sponsor Keith Turner. In addition, club members will set up telescopes outside the school to view the transit of Venus on the evening of June 5.

The transit of Venus is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs when Venus passes directly between the earth and the sun, according to transitofvenus.org. It allows viewers to see the planet as a small dot gliding across the face of the sun. The transit occurs in pairs that are eight years apart but are separated by over a century.

“It’s going to be the last one in our lifetime,” Yanying Chen, club president and sophomore, said via email. “We are going to put telescopes outside the school and put solar filters on them so we can look at the sun, but that’s about all I know. We have never done this before.”