Venusovergang / Transit of Venus 8 - 6 - 2004

Op 8 juni 2004 vondt een van de zeldzaamste astronomische gebeurtenissen plaats. Venus trok voor de zon langs . Dit gebeurd slechts 2x in de komende  125 jaar. De tweede is in 2012 maar vrijwel niet te zien in Europa. Deze overgang was echter in zijn geheel vanuit Nederland te zien.  Het weer werkte gelukkig mee, een stralende zon....

On June 8th 2004 an extremely rare astronomic event took plase. Venust transited over the sun. This was visible in all of Europe. Fortunately the weather was very good....

	+/. 7h35 Picture taken with a Sanyo AZ3 Dig. Camera behind a Meade ETX 90 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope (Exp. Automatic, one out of 7 pic sequence)
	7h39 The black drop Picture taken with a Sanyo AZ3 Dig. Camera behind a Meade ETX 90 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope (Exp. Automatic, one out of 7 pic sequence)
	7h40 The black drop Picture taken with a Sanyo AZ3 Dig. Camera behind a Meade ETX 90 Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope (Exp. Automatic, one out of 7 pic sequence)
Image taken at 8h equipmet, see above.
8h25 equipmet, see above.
Images taken Through an Ha Filter at the Utrecht observatory (10h, 10h30)
Image taken at 10h15 Utrecht observatory
Last contact (13h23). This image was taken just a few minutes earlier.
Even the TV stations came and watched.	The Ha Telescope
Solar projection
	The old city defence workds.

The contact times are shown here. 

In de figuur hieronder staat het verschijnsel afgebeeld.  
An overview of the event is shown here.

De venusovergang. Tijdstippen in deze figuur zijn in UT
The transit (tomes are in UT)

Zichtbaarheid van de Venusovergang op aarde. Deze figuur is strict genomen op het moment van  het maximum. 
Visibility This picture shows the earth from the sun during maximum

Maps courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
For detailed information this lunar, see Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page:
sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html