Digne-les-Bains

Tomorrow (10 August 2009) we set off from Nice by road for Digne-les-Baines and Sisteron in the Hauts Alpes de Provence. This is the first sector of a four day journey back to Cambridge. Digne is noteworthy to astronomers because in 1631, he became the first person to observe the transit of a planet across the Sun, viewing the transit of Mercury that Kepler had predicted.