2012 Annular Eclipse and Transit of Venus
June 5/6, 2012 Transit of Venus
- Espenak map for the June 5/6 transit of Venus
- Espenak transit site for 2004 and 2012
- Espenak planetary transit site
- Jubier site for Transits of Mercury and Venus
- Zeiler map for the June 5/6 transit of Venus
- Pasachoff website for transit of Venus information
- Bueter website for transit of Venus information
- van Roode website for transit of Venus information
- HM Nautical Almanac Office map
- European Southern Observatory map
- to calculate local times of the transit
- A NASA Transit of Venus Working Group (TOVWG) has been set up by Lou Mayo of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center([email protected]), coordinating public-outreach observations all over the world for the 2012 NASA Sun Earth Day education program (http://sunearthday.nasa.gov). Based on the response to NASA’s 2004 Transit of Venus Sun Earth Day program, Lou estimates, their efforts may reach well over 50 million people by the time of the transit.
- A public-outreach program of observations is being coordinated by Jean-Eudes Arlot of the Institut de mecanique celeste (IMCCE) at the Observatoire de Paris in France.
- Mayo, Arlot, and Pasachoff all gave talks on October 6, 2011, related to public outreach on the occasion of the transit of Venus at the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Science’s meeting in Nantes, France, joint with the European counterpart society. Video of the talks
Arlot’s site from the 2004 transit - Filmmaker Maarten Roos is making a documentary film about transits of Venus.Watch the 6-minute teaser.
- Pasachoff’s 22-minute lecture about the transit of Venus, including both historical discussions and contemporary science, appeared recently on the Phi Beta Kappa website.
- Victoria Jaggard of National Geographic News interviewed Pasachoff for herBreakingOrbit blog of March 1, 2011.
- Pasachoff’s podcast one year in advance of the 2012 transit, audio plus a transcript. Another one will occur just before the transit.
May 20, 2012 Annular Eclipse
The Four Partial Eclipses of 2011
- Fred Espenak’s NASA site for 2011 eclipses
- 4 January 2011 partial solar eclipse throughout Europe, northern Africa, east to India
- Daniel Fisher: 4 January 2011 partial solar eclipse in Germany
- 1 June 2011 partial solar eclipse throughout northern Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland
- 25 November 2011 partial solar eclipse only in the ocean off Antarctica
- 10 December 2011 partial solar eclipse in Antarctica, New Zealand, barely Cape Town, South Africa
The Annular and the Total Eclipse of 2010
- 2010 annular eclipse image from Purple Mountain Observatory in China
- 2010 annular eclipse, images by Jay Pasachoff
- Annular Eclipse from Abouazza Elmhamdi, Astronomical Observatory, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2010 annular eclipse, Stefan Kraus’s list of links
- 2010 annular eclipse image over a Greek temple
- 2010 annular eclipse ring
- 2010 annular eclipse pinhole images
- 2010 annular eclipse series
- 2010 spaceweather.com eclipse gallery
- Xavier Jubier´s online repository of Google Maps for eclipses
- On Google Earth, Xavier´s kmz files for many eclipse tracks
- Espenak (NASA) 2010 Eclipse Homepage
- Daniel Fischer: Ring of Fire in the Land of the Coconut
- Daniel Fischer: An impossible eclipse at the end of the world
- Arnold Barmettler´s maps
- Jay Anderson´s maps with weather information
- Pasachoff article on eclipse science and plans of expeditions from Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2009) Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 613 – 634
- TOTALITY! Newzine including list of eclipse tours #9 (PDF)
- TOTALITY! Newzine including list of eclipse tours #10 (PDF)
Partial, Annular and Total Solar Eclipses of 2009
- Xavier Jubier´s online repository of Google Maps for eclipses
- On Google Earth, Xavier´s kmz files for many eclipse tracks
- Espenak (NASA) 2009 Eclipse Homepage
Arnold Barmettler´s maps - Jay Anderson´s maps with weather information
- Miloslav Druckmüller’s images
- Daniel Fischer: Journey to the longest solar eclipse of the 21st Century
- Pasachoff article on “Solar Eclipses as an Astrophysical Laboratory” as part of Nature’s International Year of Astronomy coverage (2009) Vol. 459, pp. 789-795 (PDF)
- Pasachoff article on eclipse science and plans of expeditions from Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2009) Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 613 – 634
- TOTALITY! Newzine including list of eclipse tours #9 (PDF)
- New York Times Travel section article about eclipse-chasing
- Pasachoff article on Solar Eclipses as an Astrophysical Laboratory in Nature’s coverage of the International Year of Astronomy (PDF)
- Williams College expedition and links
Partial, Annular and Total Solar Eclipses of 2008
- Xavier Jubier´s online repository of Google Maps for eclipses
On Google Earth, Xavier´s kmz files for many eclipse tracks - Espenak (NASA) 2008 Eclipse Homepage
- Daniel Fischer: Journey to the Total Solar Eclipse of 1 August 2008
- Arnold Barmettler´s maps
Jay Anderson´s maps with weather information - Plans of various expeditions