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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...

The Master of 19th Century Pornography". Retrieved 3 October 2016. "Transits of Venus and Mercury as muses". "Paul Avril; Avril Paul". Tom Cutler (18 October...

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...

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...

Charles Emile Stuyvaert, to San Antonio to observe a locally visible transit of Venus across the face of the sun. At the time, this was a method of measuring...

the transit of Venus in 1882 and on several French expeditions to observer solar eclipses. He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France from 1889...

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...

a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax. Periodicals Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique...

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...

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

The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched...