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On 8th of June this year Planet Venus was
seen, as a small dot, in front of the sun-passing
through it. The rare event was not witnessed by
human eyes in 122 years. The next transit will
happen 8 years later and then not until 105
years.
Also visit our VT-2004 June 8 page to see animated
picture. {Scroll down the page for more.}
VT
in Nepal
People
trying to take a glimpse of Venus Transit
projected on a paper by a telescope at Valmiki
Campus, Kathmandu. Prof. Jayanta Acharya
behind the telescope wearing a dhaka topi (
Nepalese Cap).
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Contact Table(June 8
2004)
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Transit Contacts |
Nepali Standard
Time |
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Contact
I |
11h00m20s |
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Contact
II |
11h19m21s |
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Greatest
Transit |
14h02m18s |
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Contact
III |
16h46m09s |
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Contact
IV |
17h05m24s |
The
next transit will be on June 12, 2012- eight
years later. And
then on December 11, 2117.
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World
VT
Some of
the pictures of 2004 Transit of Venus are unlike
any in the history
of astronomy. There's the X-ray
Transit of Venus, recorded by an
Earth-orbiting satellite; a
jet airplane transiting Venus while Venus
transited the Sun; Venus' atmosphere glowing
like a fiery-red
ring; and Brood X cicadas
watching the transit--for the first time since
the 8th century. Visit the
Space Weather gallery to see these images
and more.
| Links above are outside
Kosmandu website |
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See a small
dark spot at the bottom of the picture? Its
Venus! |
Above: Riccardo Robitschek and Giovanni Maria
Caglieris of Milan, Italy captured this image of
Venus just two minutes after fourth contact (see
table) . The solar chromosphere just above the
black edge of a coronagraph, which blots out the
Sun's bright disk. See the fiery ring around
Venus? That's sunlight filtering through the
planet's atmosphere. Amazing!
Photo Credit- spaceweather.com
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