The Venus Transit 2004

The Venus Transit 2004

European Science & Technology Week 2004 European Southern Observatory European Association for Astronomy Education Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Observatoire de Paris Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (IMCCE)
Last update: 2004 Jun 08 12:02 CEST
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VT-2004 No. of registered participants : 2070
No. of observers with timings : 86
No. of timings sent : 139
Official value of 1 AU : 149597870 km
Calculated AU : 150935826 km
Dispersion : ± 3047054 km
Absolute Difference : 1337956 km
Difference as percentage: 0.894 %

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Public showing at the centre of Garching June 8, 2004, 12:21 UT
Germany
Display Window 2 Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory
H-alpha filter
June 8, 2004, 10:05 UT
Austria
ESO HQ Meudon Eichens Refractor
Paris Meudon Observatory
June 8, 2004, 09:34 UT
France
Latest Comment (June 8, 10:00 UT) : Two videos from the AGAPE group at ESO are now available - the entry of Venus onto the solar disc and the first half of the passage across the disc. If you missed the beginning of the Venus transit, you may access all previous versions of this Central Display page in the Archive.
A transit - either of Mercury or Venus - always begins on the eastern limb of the Sun and ends on the western limb. This is in direct contrast to eclipses - either solar or lunar - which always proceed from west to east. The reason for this is that Mercury, Venus and Earth move around the Sun in the same direction - from west to east, as seen from the Sun.
There is now just one hour left until the 3rd contact when Venus will again touch the border of the Sun.
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