Our last transit of Venus

In August, we announced that filming had begun of a great documentary film about the next transit of Venus. Now, Maarten Roos has released a teaser of Our Last Transit of Venus. Jean-Eudes Arlot, Huib Zuidervaart, Paolo Tanga, Jay Pasachoff, Alfred Vidal Madjar and Louis Mayo explain why the transit of Venus is so special and what they plan to do on the day of the transit.

The final film will highlight three groups of people: scientists who will observe the transit to study Venus and exoplanets, amateurs and students who will redo the experiment of determining the size of the Solar System and professional and/or amateur historians with the intention to observe the transit with 18th and 19th century instruments. If you are interested to collaborate or contribute to the funding, you can visit the project’s Vimeo channel, or contact Maarten at tov2012@lightcurvefilms.com.

I advise you to watch this 6 minute teaser at full screen!