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Essen 2004 horizontal view

Internet Project Observing, Photographing and Evaluating the Transit of Venus, June 5/6th, 2012

Essen 2004 equatorial view

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Links

The following links handle with the transit of venus either, but have got other priorities. Therefore, it can be interesting to visit and explore these sites to get more informations about the astronomical phenomenon.

• General Information about transits
  • transitofvenus.org/
    This wep page offers a lot of information about transits of venus in general and especially about the transit of 2012.
  • Die Venus vor der Sonne
    The most comprehensive transit page in Germany with basic articles about parallax measurements and celestial mechanics and so on, lots of continuative links, travel destinations, ... (in German)
  • transitofvenus.org
    
  • Transits of Venus and Mercury
    
• About the 2012 transit of Venus
  • The 2012 Transit of Venus
    The NASA 2012 transit page by Fred Espanak
  • Local Transit Times
    At this page, your local transit visibilty can be calculated.
  • Get ready for the transit of Venus!
    The transit page of the European Space Agency
• Other transit projects in 2012
  • Measuring the Solar System
    Another contact times project presented by Astronomers without Borders. In this project, a free phone app is used. On transit day, the contact times observed by yourself will be sent automatically to a database. The details are described in the site Phone app.
  • Don't Miss the Transit of Venus in 2012: It's Your Last Chance Until 2117
    (The Universe in the Classroom. An Initiative of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
  • Sun-Earth-Day Shadows of the Sun
    The NASA site of transit day events around the world but concentrated to the United States.

• About the 2004 transit of Venus
  • Observing, Photographing and Evaluating the Transit of Venus 2004
    This is our wep page of the transit of venus of 2004
• Additives
  • How to measure the size of the Earth
    Describes possible projects for determining the radius of the earth.
  • The position of the Sun and the shape of the Earth
    An international school project for determining the radius of the earth by measuring the local position of the sun above the horizon.

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