Group items tagged VenusTransit - SciByte

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Your local circumstances are computed below. You can change the location by either dragging the marker on the map or searching for an address. From the menu on the top right you can specify the year of the transit (1639 to 2125). Clicking the icon at the top right corner of the map, you can switch the area of visibility on and off. Click on the icon on the lower right for more detailed information, including times of sunrise and sunset.
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Practising the timing of the contacts
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Features of the phone app
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Predicted times of contact
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The phone app has a tab which gives you the predicted times of contact for your location, as well as the times of sunset and sunrise.
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Contacts that cannot be viewed from your location (because the sun is below the horizon) are indicated in grey.
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Using the timer, just tap the phone’s screen at the moment of internal contact (when Venus appears within the sun, just touching the sun’s edge).
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As you are looking through the eyepiece and not at the screen, the phone will vibrate when you log your times to let you know the time was successfully recorded
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app will record the exact GPS time and your location, which then will be sent to the global database.
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you are also asked to enter your email address. Although this is optional, you will be able to add more info to your entry later if you send your address along with the data.
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This image is from NASA Astronaut Don Pettit on board the International Space Station
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I knew the Transit of Venus would occur during my rotation, so I brought a solar filter with me when my expedition left for the ISS in December 2011
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This is his first image, and we’ll add more as they become available
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