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The Transit of Venus on 2012 June 5/6

The Transit of Mercury on 2016 May 9



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                        transit map 2012
Transit map courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Select from the "Location" menu and then "Draw Venus Transit 2012" from the "Write/Draw" menu.
 


Geocentric Data

UT

Eclipse begins

22:09

Umbra eclipse begins

22:27

Greatest eclipse

01:29

Umbra eclipse ends

04:31

Eclipse ends

04:49

Duration 6h 40m



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At greatest transit (01:30 UT) the image point of the Sun and of Venus (subsolar point) is located at 22.7° N (=declination of the Sun and Venus) and 157.2° E (=360° - Greenwich hour angle of the Sun and Venus) in the Pacific Ocean: there the greatest transit happens in the zenith of the observer:

Location:  E 157°12'00.0", N 22°42'00.0", 0m                
    
                                                Sun's          Position   Angular
                               UT1       Altitude   Azimuth     Angle    Separation
                            h  m   s         °          °          °          '
Transit Begins             22:12:05.2      44.6       80.0       41.2       16.2
Ingress Interior Contact   22:29:41.2      48.6       81.0       38.6       15.3
Least Angular Distance     01:28:50.0      89.8       95.8        0.0        9.2
Egress Interior Contact    04:27:51.0      49.1      279.0      292.8       15.3
Transit Ends               04:45:25.3      45.1      279.9      290.2       16.2
Duration:  6h 33m 20.1s

Venus is moving across the Sun's disk like this:

subsolar path of venus
                      across the sun


planes ecliptic 

Earth, Mercury, Venus und Mars on 2012 June 6
by my
Planet Applet


The geocentric end of the transit is at 4:49 UT. The borderline separating the sunlit and darkened hemispheres runs from central Africa to Spain, to east of Ireland, and Greenland, which is in agreement with the prediction Proctor's book plate IX, published in 1882.

transit end

Proctor Tansits of Venus

Richard A. Proctor: Transits of Venus (published in 1882), plate IX (2012 transit).

The path of Venus as seen from the Earth

Venus path


Esotheric and Astrology

 

Web Links

Richard A. Proctor: Transits of Venus, a popular account of past and coming transits, 4th ed, London 1882 (full text, PDF)

Steven van Roode: Transit of Venus

2012 Transit of Venus

IMCE (Institut de Meécanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides):
Le passage de Vénus des 5 et 6 Juin 2012

IMCE (Institut de Meécanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides):
2004-2012: the transits of Venus,

Educational sheets for teachers, students and amateur astronomers

IMCE (Institut de Meécanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides):
2004-2012: the transits of Venus

Books
Gudrun Bucher: Die Spur des Abendsterns: Die abenteuerliche Erforschung des Venustransits, WBG Damstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3534236336

Nick Lomb: The Essential Companion to the 2012 Transit of Venus: 1631 to the Present, UNSW Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1742232690


Last modified: 2023, Oct 07