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8 Juin 2004

• Guide de terrain, (Pdf 900K, en anglais) mis en forme et publié avec l’aimable autorisation de Fred ESPENAK, auteur des pages webs originales
• Traveller’s book (Pdf 900K, in english) compiled and published with the agreement of Fred ESPENAK, the original web pages author.

• Méthode de datation precise…
• Precise timing method
• Ephémérides pour Paris (France) réalisée avec Occult de D. Herald
• La Carte de visibilité du Transit !! Zone de visibilité, parcours du soleil, horaires
• Le transit vu depuis la Terre
• Le site Français du transit www.venus2004.org
• Le site le l’institut de mécanique céleste (IMCCE)

Timbre commémorant le transit de juin 1768

Les sites cités

• Voir Le transit vu depuis Guernesey
• Articles en anglais sur les transit de Vénus

· http://www.venus2004.org/

· http://www.bdl.fr/ephem/passage/html/histoire.html

· http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/transit.htm

· http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

· http://www.imcce.fr/vt2004/fr/fiches.html

· http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/vt-2004/links/

General Description

• Chuck Bueter's website on the Transit of Venus - very rich and encyclopedic with many onward links (in English)
• Orpington Astronomical Society - very comprehensive webpage, with explanations about observational methods etc. (in English)
• Venus-Transit 2004 - contains dates of all transits between the years 1500 -2500 and a very comprehensive list of onward links (in German)
• Venustransit - Venus vor der Sonne - contains background information on Venus transits (in German)
• IMCCE website on transits - very comprehensive, general information about Mercury and Venus transits from the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (in French)
• Steven M. van Rode's website - very informative website by Steven M. van Rode (in English)

Education and Projects

• The Venus Project - an ambitious internet project for "Observing, Photographing and Evaluating the Transit of Venus, June 8th, 2004" organised by Professor Udo Backhaus (University of Essen, Germany), mainly directed towards schools and amateur astronomers with some astronomical equipment. Detailed explanation of methods etc. (in English)
• Sun-Earth Education Forum - very comprehensive educational website with materials for different age groups
• "Paper Plate Education" - another excellent website by Chuck Bueter (in English)

Tables and Graphics about Visibility of the Venus Transit, etc.

• Jürgen Giesen' website on the Venus Transit (in English)
• NASA website - contains information on the Venus Transits in 2004 and 2012, including maps and information on the visibility around the world
• The CalSky site - contains online-calculation of local circumstances for all transits of Mercury and Venus (in German)
• IMCCE site - comprehensive information about the Venus Transit in 2004 from the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (in French)
• US Naval Observatory tables - detailed data on the visibility of this astronomical event around the world (PDF-file)

History, etc.

• Article on the "Black Drop" phenomenon - by Italian astronomer Guido Horn d'Arturo (from 1922, written in Italian, here translated into English)

Commercial Products, Travels, etc.

• Embah Safari - desert travel to view the Venus Transit
• Sky & Space - SOBOMEX - solar viewing glasses - observing aids
• Light Tec Optical Instruments - observing aids

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