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Background

On Tuesday 8 June 2004, the planet Venus will cross the Sun's disk producing an extremely rare Venus transit. Venus will be seen in silhouet as a large black spot. The latest Venus transit occcured in 1882, 122 years ago. So no human alive on Earth has ever witnessed a Venus transit! The transit can be observed in its full extent throughout Asia, Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Africa. It will be partially visible for observers in Australia, Japan, and the eastern states and countries of the Americas).

Live webcasts

Venusvoordezon.nl hosts Dutch and Belgian webcasts and links to webcasts all around the world. Weather forecasts seem to indicate that The Netherlands will have a ringside seat for this event with beatiful weather and a cloudless sky. Should we be so unfortunate that a local thunderstorms develops you might still enjoy our remote webcast brought by professional astronomers using the Dutch Open Telescope at la palma, Canary Islands.

Measuring the distance from the earth to the Sun

Are you observing? Please join our observations and enter your contact timings and geographical coordinates through our Observation Headquarters. Combine your observatons with those of others on remote plaves on Earth and use our online calculator to determine the disctance ftrom the Earth to the Sun.