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A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus reoccur periodically.
The next time a mutual planetary transit or occultation will happen (as seen from Earth) will be on 22 November 2065 at about 12:43 UTC, when Venus near superior conjunction (with an angular diameter of 10.6") will transit in front of Jupiter (with an angular diameter of 30.9"); however, this will take place only 8° west of the Sun, and will therefore not be visible to the unaided/unprotected ...
Point Venus Lighthouse, Tahiti (LMS, 1869, p.) [4]. In 1663, Scottish mathematician James Gregory came up with the idea of using Venus or Mercury transits to determine the astronomical unit by measuring the apparent solar parallax between different points on the surface of the Earth. [5]
The observation by Mikhail Lomonosov of the transit of 1761 provided the first evidence that Venus had an atmosphere, and the 19th-century observations of parallax during Venus transits allowed the distance between the Earth and Sun to be accurately calculated for the first time. [19]
Venus was 0.7205 au from the Sun on the day of transit, decidedly less than average. [9] Moving far backwards in time, more than 200,000 years ago Venus sometimes passed by at a distance from Earth of barely less than 38 million km, and will next do that after more than 400,000 years.
On January 2, Venus, the planet of love and pleasure, moves into the water sign of Pisces. This makes for an overall dreamy energy when it comes to everyone's day-to-day lives ( and love lives).
Venus 23.3° East July 7, 2005 08:21:22 Mercury 1°38' south of Venus 25.8° East September 2, 2005 12:05:52 Venus 1°22' south of Jupiter 38.7° East October 6, 2005 07:01:37 Mercury 1°28' south of Jupiter 12.6° East October 29, 2005 16:11:20 Venus 11°08' south of Pluto 46,8° East December 31, 2005 15:55:12 Mercury 7°36' south of Pluto
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