link to ESO central site
French National Node of the VT-2004 project
2004-2012: the transits of Venus
direct links:
what is a transit
(in french)
virtual observations of the transit
calculating the AU from the transit of 2004
Short presentation
of the event
Observations
of the transit of Venus
Documents and educational pages
for teachers, students and amateur astronomers for the explanation and the observation of the transits.
Measuring the AU from the observations of June 8, 2004
and access to the data bases
Visibility and local conditions
of the transit of June 8, 2004 (in french)
Visibility and local conditions
of the transit of June 5-6, 2012 (in french)
History of the past transits of Venus
Books, booklets, CD Rom and documents
on the transit of Venus
The canons of the transits of Venus
(list of all transits from 3000 BC to +3000 AD)
Presentation of what we propose around
the transits of Venus
Links towards sites
participating to the VT-2004 project and towards sites related to the 2004 transit of Venus
How to have a partnership
between schools, high schools, amateur astronomers .
The Mercury transits
Presentation of what we proposed to prepare
the event
Where the transit was observable, on June 8, in France?
The computations related to the determination of the Astronomical Unit are made on servers by
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last update: January 2, 2008
contact: vt2012 (at) imcce.fr
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