2004-2012: the transits of Venus
 
 
Educational sheets for teachers, students and amateur astronomers

One will find below the provisional list of the educational sheets. These sheets will be available as html, word or pdf files. They will be also available in several languages through the central european site to the "VT-2004 National Nodes".

  1. What is the interest of the transit of Venus html & pdf

    2. The calculations

  2. The prediction of the Venus transits:
    a- la géométrie du phénomène (in french): html & pdf
    b- les circonstances locales(in french): html & pdf
    c- le tracé des cartes de visibilité (in french): html & pdf

  3. What will we observe on June 8, 2004? html & pdf, word

  4. How to calculate the AU from the observation of a transit?
    a- définitions (in french): html & pdf
    b- théorie (in french): html & pdf
    c- calcul (in french): html & pdf

  5. How to calculate yourself the AU:
    a- a simplified method of calculation html
    b- formulae for the calculations from the timings html
    c- formulae for the calculations from the distances html

  6. How to choose a partnership for calculating the AU from two sites? (in french) html  &  pdf

  7. How to send observations to VT-2004 network calculation center in Paris? :html  &  pdf

    8. The Sun and Venus

  8. Our solar system and its members and its planetary laws html & pdf

  9. Venus – the second planet in the solar system (an overview with physical data) html & pdf

  10. Venus – the Earth’s sister planet (a comparison) html & pdf

  11. Venus’ orbit and visibility – day, night and seasons on Venus html & pdf

  12. Venus topography, geology and planetary history html & pdf

  13. The clouds of Venus – a description of the planet’s atmosphere: html

  14. Venus and mythology html & pdf

  15. Venus and science fiction html & pdf

  16. Life on Venus and on other worlds in the solar system? html & pdf

  17. Space probes for mapping the planet Venus html & pdf

  18. Information about the Sun html & pdf

  19. Eclipses – the common and well-known kind of transit

    20. The history

  20. History of the observations of transits of Venus:
    a- the first predictions and the transits of 1631 and 1639: html
    b- the transit of Venus of 1761: html
    c- the transit of Venus of 1769: html
    d- the transit of Venus of 1874: html
    e- the transit of Venus of 1882: html

  21. List of the voyages made for the observations of the transits of Venus in the past centuries: html

    22. Other transits

  22. Other transits in the solar system – Mercury, Jupiter satellites and Charon html & pdf

  23. Searching for other worlds by using the transit method: html

    24. The observations

  24. Methods, tools and techniques for transit observations: html & pdf,    word

  25. Observation of the Sun : techniques and methods

  26. Safety html

    27. The concepts

  27. Measuring distances in the universe
    a- the distances in the solar system: html
    b- the distances in the universe: html & pdf
    c- the definition of the astronomical unit: html    word

  28. What is light?

  29. What is time?

  30. What is Universal Time? html & pdf

  31. The calculation of the astronomical unit from the observations of June 8:
    a- the calculation in real time on June 8: html
    b- the definitive calculation of the astronomical unit using all the data: html


last update: January 2, 2008
contact: vt2012 (at) imcce.fr
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