NASA
Post-transit Links
- JMP’s Public Lecture in Waimea sponsored by the Keck Observatory on June 7
- invited public evening lecture at the AAS meeting in Anchorage on June 11
- podcast on 365daysofastronomy.org (June 29th)
- Glass Art About the Transit
General Links
- Transits of Venus and Mercury
- NASA site from Fred Espenak
- Transit of Venus maps from eclipses-maps.com
- ToV 2012 map from eclipse-maps.com
- Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Observer’s Handbook Discussion
- Links from the American Astronomical Society’s Historical Astronomy Division
- Pasachoff 22-min lecture video for Phi Beta Kappa
- Victor Davies’s/Maureen Hunter’s “Transit of Venus” opera and play
- Wikipedia entry
- U.S. Naval Observatory site
- Interview with Jay Pasachoff on a National Geographic blog
- Chuck Bueter’s transitofvenus.org site
- Steven van Roode’s transitofvenus 2012 site
- Steven van Roode’s transit expedition history site
- European Southern Observatory site
- 2004-2012 French national site (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, ESO)
Pre-transit Links
- Animated cartoon about Le Gentil’s expedition
- article in the children’s magazine Odyssey
- discussion in the National Geographic Society’s BreakingOrbit blog (March 1, 2011)
- Giving a year’s notice at “June 5: Transit of Venus”
- For scientists at the 2011 Nantes AAS Division of the Planetary Sciences meeting, “Transits of Venus in Public Education and Contemporary Research,” online video
- JMP’s 22-minute lecture about the transit of Venus, “Transit of Venus – Will You Be Watching?,” on the Phi Betta Kappa online website
- JMP’s summary of E/PO at AAS Historical Astronomy Division News, #79, October
- JMP Comment in Nature: “Transit of Venus: Last Chance to See,” Nature 485, 303-304
- JMP article, “Transit of Venus: Last Chance to See From Earth until 2117,” Physics World, 25, 36-41, May
- JMP article, “Crossing the Sun: The Last Transit of Venus until 2117,” Scientific American, online
- JMP academic minute, “Transit of Venus”
- On transit day, JMP Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, “Learning from Celestial Beauty”
- In October 2012, JMP Sky and Telescope article on the transit