In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer. As viewed from a...

a transit of Mercury, at widely spaced points on the surface of the Earth, could be used to calculate the solar parallax, and hence the astronomical unit...

"Total Solar Irradiance at the 2006 Transit of Mercury and Application to Transiting". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 40: 404. Bibcode:2008DPS...

occurrence of a transit of Venus and a transit of Earth is extremely rare, and will next occur in the year 571,741. Astronomical transit Transit of Phobos from...

mariners for celestial navigation, and observe star transits to set extremely accurate clocks (astronomical regulators) which were used to set marine chronometers...

The astronomical unit (symbol: au or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to 149,597,870,700 m. Historically, the astronomical unit was...

the Royal Astronomical Society. XXXVI: 309–313. Bibcode:1876MNRAS..36..309H. doi:10.1093/mnras/36.7.309. Martin Hoffmann, Asteroid transits over the disk...

In astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer. The occulted object may...

Venus will occur 14 hours apart. Astronomical transit Transit of Deimos from Mars Transit of Phobos from Mars Transit of Mercury from Earth Webster, Guy...

measurement of the astronomical unit (AU) of 149 608 708 km ± 11 835 km which had only a 0.007% difference to the accepted value. The entire transit was visible...

the attempts during the 18th century transits of Venus to establish a truly precise value for the astronomical unit. The black drop effect was long thought...

brightest star in the sky. Appulse Astrometry Astronomical transit Transit of Earth from Mars Transit of Mercury Transit of Venus Occultation Elongation (astronomy)...

finely graduated. This was the transit theodolite. This type of theodolite was developed from 18th century astronomical Transit instruments used to measure...

Nils (2020). "A Transit Lightcurve of Deimos, Observed with the InSight Solar Arrays". Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 4 (4): 57...

First contact may refer to: First contact (astronomy), the moment in astronomical transit when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch First contact...

data security services Two of the four contacts observed during an astronomical transit "The Hall of Egress", a television episode Egressive sound, a type...

exoplanets have been discovered via this method, which is known as the astronomical transit method. Light curve inversion is a mathematical technique used to...

astronomical unit of length had the accepted value: 1 au = c0τA = (149597870700±3) m, where τA is the transit time of light across the astronomical unit...

An astronomical instrument is a device for observing, measuring, or recording astronomical data.[citation needed] They are used in the scientific field...

as "transit" counts only objects that are smaller than what they are passing in front of. Solar transit is only one of several types of astronomical transit...

Daniel J.; Gaudi, B. Scott (2013). "A Posteriori Transit Probabilities". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 125 (930): 933–950. arXiv:1305...

A transit of Phobos across the Sun as seen from Mars takes place when Phobos passes directly between the Sun and a point on the surface of Mars, obscuring...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Astronomical symbols are abstract pictorial symbols used to represent astronomical objects, theoretical constructs and...

e.g. Earth's rotation axis position (polar motion). Since then radio astronomical quasar measurements (VLBI) have also measured Earth's rotation axis several...

sources, called an X-ray Occulting Steerable Satellite or XOSS. Astronomical transit (also for occultations of planets by other planets) Conjunction GPS...

A list of future observable astronomical events. These are by no means all events, but only the notable or rare ones. In particular, it does not include...

arXiv:1106.3141 [astro-ph.IM]. "Logbooks of the Bologna astronomical Observatory for the year 1761". Transits of Venus. University of Oxford. Archived from the...

contact may refer to: Second contact, an event that occurs during an astronomical transit "Second Contact", a 2020 episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks Fire Hawk:...

configurations of astronomical objects in general. For example, one such case occurred on March 21, 1894, around 23:00 GMT, when Mercury transited the Sun as...

TrES-5b is a Hot Jupiter class extrasolar planet discovered by astronomical transit located 1100 light years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbiting...