Bazsites.com Eclipses, Occultations And Transits
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On the Web
- Planetary Transits Across the Sun - NASA/Goddard page with explanations and photographs. Includes detailed information about upcoming events and some history.
- Transits of Mercury and Venus - Brief description of the upcoming transits, with information about visibility in Australia and New Zealand.
- Internet Project - Transit of Venus - Invites students, teachers, and amateur astronomers to participate in studies of the transit of 2004.
- Transits of Venus - Transits in the past and on June 8, 2004.
- Venus Transit 2004 - The European Southern Observatory describes and invites participation in a project to reenact the determination of the solar parallax using a transit of Venus.
- The Next Transits of Venus - Brief description with diagrams of the 2004 and 2012 transits as seen from Guernsey.
- Transit of Venus, 2004 - A table showing predicted time and path of the transit for various locations throughout the world. In PDF format from the US Naval Observatory.
- Sun-Earth Day 2004 Venus Transit - Information and resources for students, educators, museums, scientists and amateur astronomers. Animations, facts, graphs, maps, historical articles, and pointers to webcasts and other ways to view the transit.
- Transit of Mercury Live images - Webcam announcement from Worth Hill Observatory in the UK.
- Transit of Venus - University of Central Lancashire - University of Central Lancashire is celebrating the 2004 Transit and the historical heritage of Jeremiah Horrocks (1619 to 1641) through a series of lectures, events and international collaborations.
Wikipedia Articles
- Sripati - Sripati (1019-1066) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician, the author of Dhikotidakarana (written in 1039), a work of twenty verses on solar and lunar eclipses; Dhruvamanasa (written in 1056), a work of 105 verses on calculating planetary longitudes, eclipses and planetary transits; Siddhantasekhara a major work on astronomy in 19 chapters; and Ganitatilaka, an incomplete arithmetical treatise in 125 verses based on a work by Shridhara.
- International Occultation Timing Association - The International Occultation Timing Association or IOTA is an organization dedicated to observing astronomical eclipses and occultations.
- Celestial event - A celestial event is an astronomical phenomenon of interest that involves one or more astronomical bodies. Examples of celestial events include the various phases of the Moon, meteor showers, comets, solar and lunar eclipses, planetary oppositions, conjunctions, and occultations.
- Canon of Eclipses - The Canon of Eclipses (German Canon der Finsternisse), published in 1887 at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer, is a compilation of over 13000 (8000 Solar and 5200 Lunar) eclipses, including all solar and all umbral lunar eclipses between the years 1207 BC and 2161 CE.
- List of solar eclipses seen from China - List of solar eclipses seen from China: this describes precise visibility information for solar eclipses and major cities in China. The information is useful because viewing conditions depend on viewer location.