Web Sites on the Transits of Venus

• Web Sites on the Theory of Transits
• The Historical Transits
• The Transits of 2004 & 2012
• Exhibitions on the Transit of Venus
• Conferences & Symposia on the Transit of Venus

Web Sites on the Theory of Transits

• Planetary Transits Across the Sun: The ultimate resource on transit predictions in general by Fred Espenak.
• Passages des planètes Mercure et Vénus devant le Soleil: Web site on the transits of the inner planets and their periodicities by the l’Institut de mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides of the Bureau des longitudes (Paris).
• Transits of Venus and Mercury, –1000 to +4000: Calculated by Project Pluto, the designer of the astronomy software programme Guide 8.

The Historical Transits

• Société Pierre Gassendi: Web site of the Société Pierre Gassendi (Digne les Bains) with information on the French astronomer Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and his observations of the transit of Mercury in 1631.
• The Transit of Venus & The Quest for the Solar Parallax: Web site on the historical transits of Venus by David Sellers.
• Transiti di Venere sul Sole 1761-1882: Web site of the l’Archivio Storico e la Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Astronomia dell’Università di Bologna with some scanned documents on the transits of Venus of 1761, 1769, 1874 & 1882.
• Transits of Venus: Web site of the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science with descriptions and images of the instruments used by observers of the 18th and 19th-century transits of Venus.
• The 1882 Transit of Venus: Observations from Wellington, South Africa: On the site of the U.S. Naval Observatory 1882 Transit of Venus expedition to South Africa by Willie P. Koorts.

The Transits of 2004 & 2012

• Transit of Venus, 2004: Detailed predictions prepared by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
• World Map of Visibility 2004 Transit of Venus: Prepared by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
• Le passage de Vénus devant le Soleil, mardi 8 juin 2004: French web portal on the transits of Venus by the Observatoire de Lyon.
• The Transit of Venus: Web site on the transits of Mercury and Venus by Jay M. Pasachoff (Williams College, Williamstown).
• Transit of Venus 2004: Web site on the 2004 transit of Venus by the Orpington Astronomical Society.
• Transit of Venus, June 8, 2004: Comprehensive web site on the 2004 and earlier transits of Venus by Chuck Bueter.
• Transit of Venus, June 8, 2004: Comprehensive web site on the 2004 and earlier transits of Venus by Jürgen Giesen with useful applets explaining the geometry of the transit and depicting the apparent motion of Venus across the solar disk for any place on Earth.
• The Venus Transit 2004: Web site of the ESO Educational Office with tutorial material and education projects. During the event, the site transmitted live images of the transit as seen by different observers around the world.
• I Transiti di Venere: Italian web site on the historical and coming transits of Venus by Rodolfo Calanca.
• Venus Transit 2004: Yahoo Discussion Group on the transit of Venus.
• Venus Transit 2004: Sun-Earth Day: Web site of the NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum with tutorial material and education projects. During the event, the site will transmit live images of the transit as seen by different observers around the world.
• La projet VT-2004/The VT-2004 Project: Educational resources for the 2004 transit of Venus set up by the ESO (European Southern Observatory), EAAE (European Association for Astronomy in Education), the Observatoire de Paris, the Institut de mécanique céleste (IMCCE) and the Astronomical Institute of Prague-Ondrejov.
• Venus voor de Zon: Dutch web portal for information and web sites on the transit of Venus.
• The Transit of Venus – 2012: Web site on the historical and 2004/2012 transits of Venus by Steven van Roode.

Exhibitions on the Transit of Venus

• “The Most Noble Problem in Nature”: The Transit of Venus in the 18th Century: Web version of the exhibition at the Museum for the History of Science in Oxford, from 13 April to 12 September 2004.
• Venus achterna: Sterrenkundigen op expeditie in 1874: Exhibition on the Dutch transit of Venus expedition of 1874 to Réunion (Indian Ocean) on display from 19 December 2003 to 5 September 2004 at Museum Sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
• Chasing Venus: Observing the Transits of Venus, 1631-2004: Exhibition on the transits of Venus on display at the National Museum of American History (Behring Center, Washington) from 24 March 2004 to April 2005.

Conferences & Symposia on the Transit of Venus

• HAD I: Transit of Venus: Abstracts of the papers given on 4 January 2004 in Atlanta (USA) at the History of Astronomy session at the 203rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
• IAU Colloquium 196 – Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy: Scheduled for 7-11 June 2004 at the University of Central Lancashire (Preston, Lancashire, England).
• Conference on Transit of Venus: Scheduled for 6-8 June 2004 at the University of Tabriz (Iran).
• Venus Transit Workshop: Workshop on the transit of Venus scheduled for 6-9 June 2004 by the Arab Union of Astronomy and Space Sciences and the Jordanian Astronomical Society.
• Venus voor de Zon: Conference on the transits of Venus scheduled on 1 June 2004 in Museum Sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
• Saros: Transiti, eclissi ed occultazioni: Exhibition and conference scheduled on 7-9 June 2004 at the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome (Italy).