Transit of Venus 2012 June 6

 Theodore Lunar Observatory

The planet Venus will transit the Sun just after sunrise and will be digitally observed from the Theodore Lunar Observatory located in the Australian Capital Territory.

After the event, you will be able to view LIVE my digital recording of the transit from my site for more than six hours, from first contact to fourth contact. This is what the transit will look like:

Fred Espenak has produced the image below to describe this transit:

David Herald's Occult 3.0 program produced the following details for this transit:

The following was produced by the USNO Venus Transit Computer:

U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department


                        Transit of Venus of 2012 June 06                       
                                 Delta T:  68.2s                               
    
                                 Theodore ACT                                 
                 Location:  E149°07'00.7", S35°27'04.6",   683m                
                   (Longitude referred to Greenwich meridian)                  
    
                                                                      Sun's            Position   Angular
                                                   UT1       Altitude   Azimuth     Angle    Separation
                                         h  m   s         °          °                °          '
Transit Begins                    22:16:09.5      11.0       51.6       39.9       16.2
Ingress Interior Contact      22:34:06.5      13.8       48.5       37.2       15.3
Least Angular Distance        01:30:29.8      31.4         8.6                       9.5
Egress Interior Contact        04:26:29.1      22.6      324.0      294.2     15.3
Transit Ends                        04:44:21.2      20.3      320.3      291.5     16.2
    
                 Duration:    6h 28m 11.7s
       Solar Semidiameter:   15' 45.7"
    Semidiameter of Venus:    0' 28.9"

Produced by the Theodore Lunar Observatory Australia
 modified 2007 July 9.