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The Venus transit phone app is now available in iTunes for free download. While the Android version is still being worked on, users of an iPhone can already enjoy the phone app. This app will be of great help in … Continue reading
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On October 31 of last year, Huw James gave an interview to BBC Radio Wales about the transit of Venus and his Venus Transit Expedition. Huw explains that by driving all the way from England to the West Pacific he … Continue reading
How are you going to observe the transit of Venus? Many a amateur-astronomer is already exploring the options: buying a solar filter for a telescope, getting a card board solar scope or even acquiring a special telescope with Hα filter. … Continue reading
It must have been sometime in 2003, while preparing a contribution for the French book Vénus devant le Soleil edited by Arkan Simaan, when I stumbled upon a couple of wonderful sepia prints of an 1882 British transit of Venus … Continue reading
The wealth of scanned nineteenth century reports and accounts of transit of Venus expeditions provide some nice educational science activities. One of these activities involves retracing the sites of these expeditions using the trigonometrical measurements performed by the astronomers in … Continue reading
The other day I showed you how the movie Sunshine starred a transit of Mercury. Now I have a still for you from the intro of a well-known American sitcom, in which a glimpse of a planetary transit can be … Continue reading
The Eros Parallax Project has now ended: the analysis of the results can now start. If you still have some pictures of Eros, don’t hesitate to submit your data. If you weren’t able to picture Eros, but are still curious … Continue reading
Our Eros Parallax Project relies on the collaboration of two observers far apart from each other making a picture of Eros at the very same time. The position of Eros on these pictures with respect to the background stars will … Continue reading
The Eros Parallax Project is now half way, and results are coming in. You can check these out on this results page. You can use these data to find the distance to Eros yourself using the Excel sheet prepared by … Continue reading
A new video about the transit of Venus by hilaroad.com was released on January 25:
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