{"id":258,"date":"2015-10-19T03:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T03:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2018-11-04T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T23:10:27","slug":"transitofvenus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/transitofvenus\/","title":{"rendered":"Transits of Venus and Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"2004tov\">2004 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 3358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2004tov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-image-262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Picture032.jpg\" alt=\"Transit of Venus, courtesy of Williams College Expedition\" width=\"3348\" height=\"2268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Picture032.jpg 3348w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Picture032-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Picture032-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Picture032-443x300.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3348px) 100vw, 3348px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transit of Venus, courtesy of Williams College Expedition<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"2012tov\">2012 Transit of Venus<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2012tov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-408 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Map2012-2.gif\" alt=\"Map2012-2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"transit-of-mercury\">2006 Transit of Mercury<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_409\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/transit-of-mercury\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-image-409 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/06_TRANSIT_INGRESS-1.jpg\" alt=\"06_TRANSIT_INGRESS (1)\" width=\"770\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/06_TRANSIT_INGRESS-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/06_TRANSIT_INGRESS-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/06_TRANSIT_INGRESS-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transit of Mercury, courtesy of Williams College Expedition<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"historical-transits-of-venus\">Historical Transits of Venus<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_412\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/historical-transits-of-venus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"size-full wp-image-412\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Dopplemyerhistoricaltransit.jpg\" alt=\"Doppelmayr, 1742\" width=\"343\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Dopplemyerhistoricaltransit.jpg 343w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Dopplemyerhistoricaltransit-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doppelmayr, 1742<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Transit of Venus from Jupiter on September 20, 2012<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Jupiter.color_.1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-415 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Jupiter.color_.1.jpeg\" alt=\"Jupiter.color.1\" width=\"960\" height=\"1108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Jupiter.color_.1.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Jupiter.color_.1-260x300.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2015\/10\/Jupiter.color_.1-887x1024.jpeg 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/\">2016 Transit of Mercury<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-446 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"BBSO-colorized-grab\" width=\"584\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab.jpg 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h2>\n<p>For the 2016 Transit of Mercury page, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/\">http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the 2019 Transit of Mercury page, please see:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"W74xcR7Isr\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2019tom\/\">2019 Transit of Mercury<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;2019 Transit of Mercury&#8221; &#8212; Jay M. Pasachoff\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2019tom\/embed\/#?secret=YWNHW3eZ2K#?secret=W74xcR7Isr\" data-secret=\"W74xcR7Isr\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>See<\/i> Jay M. Pasachoff, Bernd G\u00e4hrken, and Glenn Schneider, &#8220;<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/03\/PhysicsTeacher-30Jan2017.pdf\">Using the 2016 Transit of Mercury to Find the Distance to the Sun<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Physics Teacher<\/i>, March 2016, vol. 55, pp. 138-141 (the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/03\/PhysicsTeacher-cover.pdf\"><u>cover<\/u><\/a> story); for a more detailed calculation of the distance to the Sun by Professor Udo Backhaus, see the <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/02\/PhysicsTeacher-Backhaus-addition.pdf\"><u>link<\/u><\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004 Transit of Venus 2012 Transit of Venus 2006 Transit of Mercury Historical Transits of Venus Transit of Venus from Jupiter on September 20, 2012 2016 Transit of Mercury For the 2016 Transit of Mercury page, please see:\u00a0http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/ For the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/transitofvenus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}