- Transit of Venus, 2004
The most recent
transit of Venus when observed fromEarth took place onJune 8 2004 . The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit to take place after the invention ofbroadcast media . No human alive at the time had witnessed a previous Venus transit, since the previous Venus transit took place onDecember 6 1882 .Visibility
The transit was best seen from
Europe ,Asia andAfrica , although easternNorth America caught the end of it. WesternNorth America did not see it at all, nor didHawaii orNew Zealand . The regions from which the transit were visible are shown on the map to the right.Timing
The following table and image give times for various events (respectively, first contact, second contact, the mid-point, third contact and fourth contact) during of the transit on
June 8 ,2004 for a hypothetical observer at the center of the Earth. Due toparallax , actual observed times may differ by as much as ±7 minutes at different observation points on Earth.Media
Bangalore at 07:41 UTC, about two hours into the transit. The image is inverted compared to the diagram above, so Venus is seen near the top of the Sun's discultraviolet part of the spectrumSee also
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Transit of Venus
*Transit of Venus, 2012 External links
* [http://147.205.84.51/hartwick/astronomy/venus.htm The Venus Transit Across the Sun; observations from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, USA]
* [http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/ Several videos of the transit] as seen by the TRACE satellite
* [http://www.taralaya.org/archive/ Archive of observations in Bangalore]
* [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/TV2004.html Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus]
* [http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_1021_1.asp The Transit of Venus: Where to See It]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3786705.stm Photos taken by BBC News readers]
* [http://www.vt-2004.org Venus Transit 2004 Homepage at European Southern Observatory]
* [http://www.timewolf.net/VT/ Venus Transit 2004 - Miami, FL, USA]
* [http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk/nao/transit/V_2004/ HM Nautical Almanac Office: 2004 Transit of Venus]
* [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040610.html Astronomy Picture of the Day 2004 June 10 -- Transit closeup photo]
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