transits

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• - BBC News article anticipating the 2003 transit.
  
• - Invites students, teachers, and amateur astronomers to participate in studies of the transit of 2004.
  
• - A table showing predicted time and path of the transit for various locations throughout the world. In PDF format from the US Naval Observatory.
  
• - Brief description with diagrams of the 2004 and 2012 transits as seen from Guernsey.
  
• - Brief description of the upcoming transits, with information about visibility in Australia and New Zealand.
  
• - Covers the transit from an African vantage point.
  
• - Travel details and much information about Iran and science and astronomy in Iran.
  
• - Safety, viewing techniques, FAQ, and historic expeditions pertaining to this June 8, 2004 event.
  
• - Information and resources for students, educators, museums, scientists and amateur astronomers. Animations, facts, graphs, maps, historical articles, and pointers to webcasts and other ways to view the transit.
  
• - Description of the event, explanation of timing, illustrations including "black drop effect".
  
• - Webcam announcement from Worth Hill Observatory in the UK.
  
• - Drawings of the 2003 and 2004 Mercury and Venus transits as they will appear from Geneva.
  
• - The European Southern Observatory describes and invites participation in a project to reenact the determination of the solar parallax using a transit of Venus.
  
• - Pictures and movie clips of the 2004 transit of Venus, as viewed from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.