My CAN-I Thought Process!: Watch Transit of Venus Live

June 07, 2004

Watch Transit of Venus Live

For hundreds of years, transits of Venus have been important for scientific research. From the seventeenth century onward, Venus transits provided observers with data that eventually led to a very close estimate of the astronomical unit-the distance between Earth and the Sun.

Transits of Venus occur in pairs that are eight years apart, then don't happen again for more than a century. The last two Venus transits were in 1874 and 1882, so no one alive today has seen one. After transits in 2004 and 2012, there won't be another until 2117.

Watch it live here: Exploratorium: Transit of Venus

WEBCAST SCHEDULE
1st & 2nd CONTACT PROGRAM
10:00 p.m. PDT June 7 (San Francisco)
1:00 a.m. EDT June 8 (New York)
8:00 a.m. EEST June 8 (Athens)
3rd & 4th CONTACT PROGRAM
4:00 a.m. PDT June 8 (San Francisco)
7:00 a.m. EDT June 8 (New York)
2:00 p.m. EEST June 8 (Athens)

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Comments

Thanks for that, this was much more fun than watching it in real life. In real life it was a total anticlimax for me, I expected something big and stunning, all I saw was a little spec :S

Posted by: Arvind at June 9, 2004 10:48 AM

What would you do, if you are not afraid?

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June 07, 2004

Watch Transit of Venus Live