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The next transit of Venus will occur on June 5–June 6 in 2012. This article is about the astronomical phenomenon. ...
June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ...
June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ...
2012 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Where visible
 Where the 2012 transit will be visible The transit will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean. North America will be able to see the start of the transit, while South Asia, the Middle East, and most of Europe will catch the end of it. The transit will not be visible in most of South America or western Africa. The regions from which the transit is visible are shown in the map to the right. Download high resolution version (1500x800, 54 KB) Visibility of the June 6, 2012 transit of Venus. ...
Download high resolution version (1500x800, 54 KB) Visibility of the June 6, 2012 transit of Venus. ...
The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, peaceful sea, bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the worlds largest body of water. ...
When visible Transit start and end times (in UTC) are given for various international cities (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus/city12-1.html) and for various US cities (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/venus/city12-2.html). UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ...
Recall that these times are in UTC. Add or subtract the appropriate amount for your time zone. UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ...
How to observe DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN. Diagram showing how to see the sun with two paper plates and a pinhole. ...
Diagram showing how to see the sun with two paper plates and a pinhole. ...
Besides possibly damaging your eyes, you won't be able to observe Venus this way anyway. The safest method for observing the Sun is projecting an image onto a screen, such as a piece of paper or card. This can be done by using either a piece of paper or card (such as a paper plate) with a pinhole in it, or a lens such as a telescope or binoculars (with one lens covered). The image to the right demonstrates how this can be done with two paper plates, the front one containing a pinhole. A pinhole camera is a camera without a lens. ...
A lens is: a part of the eye an optical device that may be used in a camera or in a telescope; see lens (optics). ...
50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ...
Binoculars A set of binoculars (from Latin, bi-, two-, and oculus, eye) is a hand-held tool used to magnify distant objects by passing the image through two adjacent series of lenses, and erecting prisms. ...
Note that for a pinhole camera to show a Venus transit, the pinhole shold be about one millimeter wide, the distance between the plates about two meters, and the second plate must be in shadow, preferably inside a room. If the whole apparatus has open sides and is surrounded by sunlight, the projected image will be too weak to be seen. Practical experience shows that the pinhole method rarely produces an image large enough or sharp enough to view the transit. It certainly is not possible to get accurate contact times using a pin hole camera.
See also This article is about the astronomical phenomenon. ...
The most recent transit of Venus when observed from Earth took place on June 8, 2004. ...
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