The Transit of Venus - June 5, 2012
An Observing Project in Canada's Northwest Territories

Online Resources

General Information

NASA Eclipse Web Site:     The 2012 Transit of Venus          (technical material)

NASA Eclipse Web Site:     2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus          (technical material)

Wikipedia:     Transit of Venus

Wikipedia:     Transit of Venus, 2012

Observing, Projects, Getting Involved

NASA Eclipse Web Site:     2012 Transit of Venus          (educational material)

Astronomers Without Borders:     Transit of Venus

Transit of Venus.org:     TransitofVenus.org

Exploratorium:     Transit of Venus

Venus Tahiti 2012:     English     Français     Tahitian

Transit of Venus from Australia:     Joe Cali's Site

Tools

Xavier M. Jubier:     Venus Transit Calculator (Local Circumstances)

Xavier M. Jubier's Interactive Google Map of the Transit.  Clicking at any location will display the local circumstances

Jay Anderson's Weather for the Transit of Venus:     Eclipser.ca

Historical

Historical Observations of the Transit of Venus

Transit Maps and other Historical Documents:     Michael Zeiler's Eclipse-Maps.com

Miscellaneous

Transit of Venus, a 3-part opera performed by Manitoba Opera, based on the life of 18th-century French astronomer, Guillaume le Gentil de la Galaisière, who twice tried, unsuccessfully, to chart the transit of the planet Venus across the sun.
 

Transit of Venus March
by John Philip Sousa, 1883:
Wikipedia article          Play

 

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