Transit of Venus - VT-2004 project

VT-2004

The University of Central Lancashire is the UK National Node for the European Science Week VT-2004 project to observe the Transit of Venus on 8th June 2004. This project connects us with other observers across Europe.

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VT-2004 Brief Information Sheets

A. The Venus Transit - General

A1 - What is the significance of the transit of Venus? (External link)
A2 - The Mercury Transit on May 7, 2003 (External link)
A3 - Other transit phenomena in the solar system (External link)

B. Observations - Calculations

B1 - Predictions of the Venus transit on June 8, 2004 (External link)
B2 - Observing the Venus Transit (External link)
B3 - Recording observations in Universal Time (External link)
B4 - Calculating the distance to the Sun (External link)

C. The Solar System

C1 - Our Solar System and its members (External link)
C2 - The Sun - our central star (External link)
C3 - The Sun - Summary Sheet (External link)

D. Venus - the Planet

D1 - Venus - The second planet of the Solar System (External link)
D2 - Venus - Summary Sheet (External link)
D3 - Venus' orbit and visibility - day, night and seasons on Venus (External link)
D4 - Venus, the Earth's sister planet ? (External link)
D5 - Space probes map Venus (External link)
D6 - Venus' history and surface (External link)
D7 - The mysterious clouds of Venus (External link)
D8 - Is there life on Venus (and elsewhere in the Solar System) ? (External link)
D9 - Venus in Mythology (External link)
D10 - Venus in Science Fiction (External link)

E. Exoplanets

E1 - The Detection of Extrasolar Planets (External link)

F. History of Transit Observations

F1 - First predictions and the transits of 1631 and 1639 (External link)
F2 - The 1761 transit of Venus (External link)
F3 - The 1769 transit of Venus (External link)
F4 - The 1874 transit of Venus (External link)
F5 - The 1882 transit of Venus (External link)
F6 - List of expeditions to observe the transits of Venus in the XVIIth - XIXth centuries (External link)
F7 - The 1882 transit of Venus as Seen from Chile (External link)

G. Basic Notions

G1 - What is Light ? (External link)
G2 - What is Time ? (External link)
G3 - The definition of the astronomical unit and the other units of distance in astronomy (External link)
G4 - Distances in the solar system: parallax and Kepler's laws (External link)
G5 - Distances in the Universe (External link)

VT-2004 Extended Information Sheets