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Where to See the Transit of Venus Online
Bookmark this page for some online viewing options for the upcoming transit of Venus.
Though the transit of Venus is viewable for several hours across much of the globe, the complete transit can only be seen near the Pacific — i.e., Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, and parts of Asia, unless you take to the sea. So if you don't want to miss a wink of this last-in-our-lifetime event, check out some of the live feeds below that will be available from around the world.
If you or someone you know is hosting a live feed online, let us know and we'll post it here!
Though the transit of Venus is viewable for several hours across much of the globe, the complete transit can only be seen near the Pacific — i.e., Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, and parts of Asia, unless you take to the sea. So if you don't want to miss a wink of this last-in-our-lifetime event, check out some of the live feeds below that will be available from around the world.
- Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter will broadcast video of the transit live starting at 2pm MST (one hour before the transit starts).
- Astronomers Without Borders will broadcast a live webcast, hosted by president Mike Simmons.
- The Exploratorium will show a live feed of the transit, with commentary every 30 minutes.
- NASA TV will host a NASA Edge program covering the transit live from Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
- The SLOOH Space Camera will broadcast the transit of Venus live from locations around the world, starting at 6p.m. (EDT).
- Researchers from University of Barcelona's Department of Astronomy and Meteorology will broadcast the transit live
from the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, the northernmost part of Norway. - The Kwasan Observatory will air the transit live from Japan.
- The Appalachian State University will stream a live feed from one of its 11-inch Celestron telescopes.
- The Bareket Observatory will broadcast the latter part of the transit live from Israel.
- The Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal (SWAN) brings you a live feed of the hydrogen-alpha sun.
- The Planet Hunters (part of the Zooniverse citizen science project) will be broadcasting a live feed from their website.
- Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center will be broadcasting the transit in many different wavelengths using hydrogen-alpha, calcium-K-line, and white-light solar filters.
If you or someone you know is hosting a live feed online, let us know and we'll post it here!
Posted by Monica Young, May 17, 2012
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Live Feed
Posted by Jon Hanford
May 25, 2012 At 08:05 PM PDT
Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center (CCSSC) in Georgia is planning to webcast the transit: http://www.ccssc.org/transit2012.html
link error
Posted by Ken Winters
May 27, 2012 At 02:04 PM PDT
The link marked "June 5-6’s Transit of Venus" actually links to Kelly Beatty's column on the annular eclipse. It's an excellant column, but not helpful here.
link error now fixed
Posted by Ken Winters
May 31, 2012 At 05:34 PM PDT
It's fixed now.
Apparent Motion of Venus Transit
Posted by Mary Anne
June 5, 2012 At 10:47 AM PDT
Does anyone know where I can learn more about the relative roles of the Earth's motion and Venus's motion in the speed and angle of the transit? The predicted angle across the face of the sun seems greater than the 3.25 degree offset of Venus's orbit from the ecliptic.
links no good
Posted by Gail
June 5, 2012 At 01:58 PM PDT
NASA, Israeli, and Barcelona links are no good.
links no good
Posted by Gail
June 5, 2012 At 02:05 PM PDT
NASA, Israeli, and Barcelona links are no good.
Transit
Posted by Matt Reynolds
June 5, 2012 At 05:46 PM PDT
I didn't have a solar filter so I couldn't look straight through my telescope, but I did have a white paper plate which is a very good and cheap way to get job done. So glad I saw it today because I know I'm not living to 2117.
Transit
Posted by Matt Reynolds
June 5, 2012 At 05:46 PM PDT
I didn't have a solar filter so I couldn't look straight through my telescope, but I did have a white paper plate which is a very good and cheap way to get job done. So glad I saw it today because I know I'm not living to 2117.
optics transpositions??
Posted by Tom Morgan
June 5, 2012 At 06:04 PM PDT
Admittedly I haven't been listening to all the commentary on the various web sites I've been looking at. Mostly, I've been observing the Exploratoriam site from Mauna Loa. In any case, this site (and most others, show the transit passing from ~10:30 down to ~2:30. My naked eye (w/#14 filter) sees it ~12:30 to ?? (4:00?). It's 7:50 CDT and Venus is now about 2:00 and roughly the same % in from the edge as I see on the Mauna Loa broadcast. (I think I've seen some other sites with yet-different orientations.) What's the explanation?
Satellite Transit with Venus
Posted by Rick
June 5, 2012 At 08:41 PM PDT
Myself and four others were observing the Venus transit when we saw a satellite transit the sun as well, itself transiting Venus. The satellite had two sets of solar panels, and was appox 1 arc-minute wide.
The time was appox 7:54 cdt, location 43.185 north, 88.753 west.
As the satellite ended the transit I was able to make out the solar panels off the edge of the Sun for a brief second (they were now bright against a dark background,through the solar filter of course)
Any help figuring out what we saw?
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