PREPARATIONS -TO WITNESS THE LONGEST ASTRONOMICAL EVENT OF THE CENTURY  

TRANSIT OF VENUS ON JUNE 6, 2012

All preparations are in vain, monsoon clouds not allowed to view   the transit,we missed that  life time opportunity, WE REALLY MISSED IT .......................

Transit of Venus- 06 June 2012

Transit of Venus- 06 June 2012 will be a life time opportunity for everyone on the Earth.

what is Transit?

When Moon comes in between the Earth and the Sun ,it is Solar eclipse. Howe ever,when either Mercury or Venus -Either of the interior planets-comes between the Sun and the Earth ,it called Transit

The discs of the planets of Mercury and Venus ,As seen from the Earth ,are much smaller than that of moon .Therefore they make no more than a small black dot when they move in front of the face of the Sun as we see in the picture shown above .

On June 06/2012 ,we shall have the good fortune of watching Venus move across the disc of the Sun.

In India, on 06 June 2012, transit will commence well before sun rises and one can observe the phenomena on Sun’s projected image or through approved solar filters supplied by authorised agencies from morning hours to mid morning.

Transit times[AM] -1st contact-3-10-56, 2nd contact -3-28-52, Mid transit -4-51-55, 3rd contact-9-34-47, 4th contact-9-52-10

The first recorded observation of the transit of Venus was done by the British Priest, Jeremiah Horrocks, in 1639. Jeremiah Horrocks was the first who used his observations to measure the Earth to Sun distance, called the Astronomical Unit (AU).

The next pair of transit of Venus will occur in 2117 and 2125, making it truly once in life time opportunity. !!!!!!!!!

TO SEE THE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE

Names of Some Organisations Related to Astronomy

1. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics(ICUAA) http:/iucaa.ernet.in/
2. American Astronomical Society http://www.aas.org/
3. Astronomical Society of the Pacific   http://www.astrosociety.org/ 
4. American Association of Variable Star Observations -AAVSO http://www.aavso.org/
5. Astronomical League http://www.astroleague.org
6. U.K.Society for Popular Astronomy http://popastro.com

      TO SEE THE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE 

1. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
2. http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
3. http://www.abmedia.com/astro/
4. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/  Astronomy of the picture of the day 
5. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html/
6. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html   Chandra X-Ray -Observatory. 
7. http://www.solarviews.com/ Views Of Solar Systom. 
8. http://virtualsky.org/index.html  Virtual Sky! 
9. http://nasa-image.blogspot.com/   NASA Shuttle Missions,International Space Station etc.... 
10. http://www.cet.edu/?cat=cotf  NASA Sponsored Class Room Of The Future. 
11. http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash.html/   Live Solar Images