Venus Transits 2004, 2012

[EarthlingX]

First thing i could think off, don't mind seeing more better, about Venus transit in 2004 from
Institute for Solar Physics



Venus is still rather close to Earth, if it would be right next to Sun, it would be even smaller:

Solar system

 

[EarthlingX]

Re: Spectactular Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) happened on 1st Feb

More information, pictures, and links about 2004 Venus transit, to get a better feeling for the size proportions:
Next transit in June 5-6, 2012, from :
http://www.transitofvenus.org/

Soho page about event :
The 2004 Venus Transit

relative sizes can be seen at this picture from http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthd ... vthome.htm
Venus Transit Bookmark, Banner, and Wallpaper

Science@NASA :
The 2004 Transit of Venus


I still can't find my favourite picture from the event, only on disk, but i suspect it's hidden in one of the links from the above pages.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Re: Spectactular Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) happened on 1st Feb

Pretty far off topic, I'm going to split these off to a Venus Transit thread; especially since the next one is coming up in 2012.

 

[origin]

I showed my kids the transit in 2004 before school by looking thru some exposed film (before I had a telescope). Pretty cool....

Looking forward to the next one.

 

[EarthlingX]

It might well be we worth watching, since we might not be around to see the one after :
from Wiki : Transit of Venus

Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years.

Well, at least for me i doubt it, my driving sux ..

 

[EarthlingX]

Couple of videos i stumbled upon :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VbRPlm6aAs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTW2YNj_4-U[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCpg-e1-0g[/youtube]