Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan...

The 1882 transit of Venus on 6 December 1882 (13:57 to 20:15 UTC), was the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken...

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...

A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and...

in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and...

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previous transit of Venus took place on 8 June 2004 (preceded by transits on 9 December 1874 and 6 December 1882); the next pair of transits will occur...

Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small...

The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent...

December 1874 and December 1882. The next transit will occur in December 2117 and December 2125. A long-standing mystery of Venus observations is the so-called...

Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, marking the spot where, in 1882, a transit of Venus was observed and recorded. The monument was added to the National...

American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus. Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards...

near Earth's perihelion, occur when Venus is near perihelion. An example was the transit of December 6, 1882: Venus reached perihelion Jan 9, 1883, and...

solar transit of Venus is an extremely rare event, and the last solar transit of the planet before 2004 was in 1882. The most recent solar transit was in...

simply a symbol of divinity. Solar System portal Aspects of Venus Ashen light Transit of Venus Goines, David Lance (October 18, 1995). "Inferential Evidence...

features. He organized an expedition to Santiago de Chile to observe the Venus transit the Sun in 1882. A second Belgian expedition (led by Jean-Charles...

November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours. Mercury transits are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per century...

The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to...

Exploration of Venus and Image catalog at Mentallandscape.com Venus page at The Nine Planets Transits of Venus at NASA.gov Geody Venus, a search engine...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1882. 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

ISBN 0801409616. Sheehan, William; Westfall, John Edward (2004). The Transits of Venus. University of Michigan. pp. 43–45. ISBN 1591021758. Campion, Nicholas...

towards that end led a Brazilian team in their observations of 1882 Transit of Venus in Punta Arenas, Chile. Cruls was born in 1848 in Diest, Belgium...

it was not found during the transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769. In 1672, Giovanni Cassini found a small object close to Venus. He did not take great note...

October 2016. "The Transit of Venus". The Press. Vol. XXXVIII, no. 5367. 7 December 1882. p. 3. Retrieved 5 March 2017. "The Transit of Venus". The Star. No...

phenomenon and technical problems of getting the start and end of the transit. The Venus transit in 1874 was a unique opportunity, which was why more than sixty...

of Wisconsin–Madison in 1882, a Congressional medal for directing the U.S. expedition to photograph the 1874 transit of Venus, and election to both the...

Botanical Garden in 1856 William Bell's stereograph taken on the 1882 transit of Venus expedition. Albert Einstein (center) visiting the Botanical Garden...

2006. Retrieved 20 March 2007. "Similarly, we don't see a transit of Venus every time Venus is between Earth and the Sun—which happens about every 584...

of transits of Venus occurred in 2004 and 2012, while the prior pair occurred in 1874 and 1882. In the 19th century, many observers stated that Venus had...

headquarters history (in Spanish) For an example of an earlier transit see 1882 Transit of Venus (HM Nautical Almanac Office at The United Kingdom Hydrographic...