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• Parameters at the instant of the conjunction in longitude.
• General phases.
• Geocentric phases.
• Back to the canon of the transits of Venus.

All the instants are given in Universal Time, for the present date the value of the difference between the Terrestrial Time TT and the Universal Time UT is taken as 842.83s
Longitudes are counted positively towards West and negatively towards East.

Conjunction on 2360/12/13 at 2h 9m 7.83s.
Geocentric longitude of Venus	261° 1' 24.205".
Geocentric latitude of Venus	+0° 10' 33.35".
Geocentric longitude of the Sun	261° 1' 24.205".
Geocentric latitude of the Sun	-0° 0' 0.34".
Equatorial parallax of the Sun	8.92".
Equatorial parallax of Venus	33.22".
Semi-diameter true of the Sun	16' 13.9".
Semi-diameter true of Venus	31.52".

Phases	Date and instant in UTC	Position of the contacts		Venus being in the Zenith in
		Longitude	Latitude	Longitude	Latitude
Ingress, exterior contact	the 12 th at 22h 25m 37.1s	+ 78° 18.9'	+22° 22.6'	+157° 48.1'	-22° 57.8'
Ingress, interior contact	the 12 th at 22h 45m 19.4s	+ 84° 36.5'	+25° 1.7'	+162° 45.1'	-22° 57.5'
Least angular distance	the 13 th at 1h 44m 41.7s	+177° 35.7'	+63° 39.7'	-152° 12.2'	-22° 55.3'
Egress, interior contact	the 13 th at 4h 44m 1.9s	- 45° 19.8'	+47° 33.9'	-107° 10.0'	-22° 53.0'
Egress, exterior contact	the 13 th at 5h 3m 44.1s	- 37° 60.0'	+45° 9.9'	-102° 13.1'	-22° 52.8'

Durations of the general phases

• Duration of the general transit : 6h 38m 7.06s.
• Duration of the transit inside the shadow : 5h 58m 42.50s.

Parameters of the shadow and penumbra cones and minimum elongation

• Semi-diameter of the shadow cone : 38.79 R
• Geocentric distance of the edge of the shadow : -13.04 R
• Geocentric distance of the edge of the penumbra : -15.63 R
• Semi-diameter of the cone of penombra : 41.39 R
• Least topocentric distance : 10' 1.457"

Geocentric phases	Date and instant in UTC	Venus being in the Zenith in		Position Angle P
		Longitude	Latitude
Ingress, exterior contact	the 12 th at 22h 33m 6.8s	+159° 41.1'	-22° 57.7'	+ 64° 36.0'
Ingress, interior contact	the 12 th at 22h 53m 8.9s	+164° 43.0'	-22° 57.4'	+ 61° 28.5'
Least angular distance	the 13 th at 1h 44m 40.9s	-152° 12.4'	-22° 55.3'	---
Egress, interior contact	the 13 th at 4h 36m 12.9s	-109° 7.8'	-22° 53.1'	+324° 30.9'
Egress, exterior contact	the 13 th at 4h 56m 15.0s	-104° 5.9'	-22° 52.9'	+321° 23.4'

Durations of the geocentric phases

• Duration of the general transit : 6h 23m 8.21s.
• Duration of the transit of the shadow : 5h 43m 3.96s.
• Least geocentric angular distance : 10' 25.682"

URL: http://www.imcce.fr/ephem/passage_eng/html_passage/VenusP2360.html Last update : March 4th, 2004.