Venus Transit Watchers' thread

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.

This is a graphic of the path.

You can watch it live here.

Venus Transit

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...

Here is another one

Transit 2004

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

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

The transit will not be visible to everyone.

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!)

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.

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

The following is the estimated worldwide transit times.

Transit Contact Times for Cities Around the World

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...

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!)

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

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...

More webcams and videos here:

webcast3.uio.no...
www.vt-2004.org...
eclipse.span.ch...
www.transit.csiro.au...
lots here: www.xs4all.nl...

Well I been up all night, not unlike any other night, but here I am and I am going to go ahead and burn my eyeballs out I reckon. No clouds yay! Here come the Sun.


Nutzo

I'll be in meetings all day, but I'd ask folks who read this thread to post some links to pictures and clips that have been archived of this. I stayed awake until about 1 am and then went to bed (had to be at work early today.)

Which one of the objects around the sun is Venus at this link? Is it the one at around 12 o'clock or the one at around 7 o'clock?

webcast3.uio.no...:26:04.jpg

here is the live link:
webcast3.uio.no...

NeedTruth

[edit on 8-6-2004 by NeedTruth]

i didn't get any pictures of it... i only caught about the last 20 minutes of the transit, so i just wanted to enjoy it and not have to fiddle faddle with my cameras. it was amazing though, truely beautiful.