Transit of Venus
While everyone else is having to watch it on a web cam or mucking about with pinhole cameras and projecting it onto a white wall or whatever, I found my eclipse glasses, so could look straight at the Sun without all that faff. Venus was just about visible as a tiny black speck in the lower right corner of the Sun.
It looks like this:
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and is the first transit of Venus to have been shown as ASCII art.