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Topic started on 7-6-2004 @ 11:45 AM by Byrd

What I'd like to do here is post some of the weblinks to places that are monitoring the Venus transit.

Here's the SOHO site... we may be able to get some decent pictures here as it happens (and hopefully folks will capture some of the event images.)
beauty.nascom.nasa.gov...

Anybody else? I'd like to get a collection of resources here for the event.

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:50 AM by kinglizard

This is a graphic of the path.

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:50 AM by KillerD

You can watch it live here.

Venus Transit

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:53 AM by cmdrkeenkid

i'll be watching the transit from the Eastern Michigan University observatory. for now though here's an article i compiled on the transit: www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:54 AM by Duke_Nukem

Here is another one

Transit 2004

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:57 AM by Regenmacher

Here's the SOHO perspective on the transit.
Venus is now entering view of Lasco C3 today too.

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 11:58 AM by kinglizard

The transit will not be visible to everyone.

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 12:36 PM by Byrd

Soho's link page:
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

(thanks, everyone, for the good work... I'd like to keep this thread kinda bumped up for others to view today, so please link news stories and so forth here. Appreciate the help!)

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 12:43 PM by Byrd

Thanks for the link to www.transit.csiro.au... Duke -- for those of you curious about the time, this Aussie site gives a countdown (11 hours to go, as I type this.) The SOHO site shows the planet creeping toward the sun's disk, but there's no estimate of time.

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 12:47 PM by Leveller

In the UK, the transit begins at about 9:25am and lasts until about 11:55am GMT.

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 12:48 PM by kinglizard

The following is the estimated worldwide transit times.

Transit Contact Times for Cities Around the World

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 12:57 PM by Mynaeris

SPACE STATION TRANSIT: Transits of Venus are rare, but this is unprecedented: The International Space Station (ISS) will cross the Sun four times during the 6-hour transit of Venus on June 8th. The double transit, Venus + the ISS, can only be seen from inside a narrow corridor about one mile wide. Four of these corridors criss-cross Europe, Africa and Asia.

www.spaceweather.com...

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 01:42 PM by Byrd

Phil Plait, the "Bad Astronomer" (yes, he's a real astronomer) will be doing quite a few tv interviews on it today:
www.badastronomy.com...

(take a look at his schedule for the interviews! Wowsers!!! He's going to be one very busy man today!)

reply posted on 7-6-2004 @ 03:08 PM by Byrd

Another find, this one from the University of New Brunswick. Nice article on the people involved with the transit watch:
nb.cbc.ca...

reply posted on 8-6-2004 @ 12:35 AM by Byrd

NICE pictures coming in on Trondheim 1 and Trondheim 2. Most of the live feeds seem hammered by connections, but Norway's holding steady.

webcast3.uio.no...

And it's HUGE on Trondheim 2
webcast10.uio.no...