1. The Transit of Venus You’ll never see it again, ‘cuz you’ll be dead. Sorry. Sucka.

2. Sunset, June 5, 2012

3. Transits of Venus occur in pairs that are eight years apart, followed by either 105.5 years or 121.5 years. How do you explain the transit of Venus frequency? This video by Nick Ducoffe uses a paper plate to illustrate the two main causes of that unique pattern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v= llbsMAuyI1Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v= llbsMAuyI1Y

4. How to make a transit simulator http://solar.physics.montana.edu/spot/teache r_area/NEAT_activities/NEW_Paper%20Plate %20Transit%20of%20Venus.pdf http://solar.physics.montana.edu/spot/teache r_area/NEAT_activities/NEW_Paper%20Plate %20Transit%20of%20Venus.pdf

5. Jeremiah Horrocks was only twenty one years old when he correctly predicted the 1639 transit of Venus. Even though Horrocks knew he could become the first person in recorded history to witness a transit of Venus, he prioritized his church duties over his personal pursuit.

6. Amateur astronomer William Crabtree was told by his friend Horrocks of the predicted transit of Venus and he also spotted the planet’s silhouette on the solar disk.

7. Screaming kids.

8. In April 1761, after a five month’s journey, the Abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d’Auteroche reached Tobolsk in Siberia, east of the Ural Mountains. He set up his wooden observatory on a plateau just outside the town. The observation of the transit of Venus went well, but Chappe had to take precautions to the fury of the local inhabitants, who thought he was a magician.

9. Captain Cook: Tahiti 1769

10. The rarely-seen Moon of Venus thanks, Sarah