2004 transit of Venus

July 2021 Astronomical event on 8 June 2004 thumb|299x299px|right|A photograph taken at 15:39 Hong Kong time (07:39 UTC) from Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. thumb|A projection of the 2004 Transit of Venus as seen from Mumbai, India at 14:57:50 IST (09:27:50 UTC) clicked using a Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD73 camera by Dhaval Mahidharia.|300x300px A transit of Venus was observed from Earth on 8 June 2004. The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit after the invention of broadcast media. No human alive at the time had witnessed a previous Venus transit since that transit occurred on 6 December 1882 in the 19th century. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE) launched the VT-2004 project, together with the Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Éphémérides (IMCCE) and the Observatoire de Paris in France, as well as the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. This project had 2,763 participants all over the world, including nearly 1,000 school classes. The participants made a measurement of the astronomical unit (AU) of 149 608 708 km ± 11 835 kmhttp://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0433/ ESO – eso0433 – Summing Up the Unique Venus Transit 2004 (VT-2004) Programme 2 November 2004 The European Southern Observatory which had only a 0.007% difference to the accepted value. Visibility thumb|right|300px|Where the 2004 transit was visible The entire transit was visible from Europe, most of Asia, and almost all of Africa. The beginning was visible before sunset from easternmost Asia and Australia. The end was visible after sunrise from the westernmost fringe of Africa, eastern North America, and much of South America. The transit was not visible at all from western North America, southern South America, Hawaii, or New Zealand. The regions from which the transit were visible are shown on the map to the right. Timing The following table and image give times for various events (respectively, first contact, second contact, the midpoint, third contact and fourth contact) during the transit on 8 June 2004 for a hypothetical observer at the center of the Earth. Due to parallax, times observed at different points on Earth may differ from the following by as much as ±7 minutes. Times (UTC) for observationsof the transit on 8 June 2004 I II Mid III IV 05:13:29 05:32:55 08:19:44 11:06:33 11:25:59thumb|center|300px|The path of Venus across the Sun (moving left to right) Media See also Transit of Venus Transit of Venus, 2012 External links June 8, 2004: The Transit of Venus https://web.archive.org/web/20180615042120/http://www.alpo-astronomy.org/transit/transit2004.html 15 June 2018 by John E. Westfall, ALPO The Venus Transit Across the Sun; observations from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, USA https://archive.today/20130814053650/http://vestige.lmsal.com/TRACE/transits/venus_2004/ Several videos of the transit el as seen by the TRACE satellite Archive of observations in Bangalore Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus The Transit of Venus: Where to See It Photos taken by BBC News readers Venus Transit 2004 Homepage at European Southern Observatory Venus Transit 2004 – Miami, FL, USA https://web.archive.org/web/20200915143950/http://www.timewolf.net/VT/ 15 September 2020 HM Nautical Almanac Office: 2004 Transit of Venus 10 June 2004 Transit closeup photo Images of the 2004 Transit of Venus by Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society https://web.archive.org/web/20190811144248/http://cmhas.wikispaces.com/Transit_Results 11 August 2019 References 2004 Category:2004 in science Category:Articles containing video clips Category:June 2004