2004 - Year of Venus!

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.


There's nobody currently alive who saw the last one, is there?

Currently alive? Surely you don't think they're gonna come alive again do
you. Or is someone yet to be born who saw the last one, an astronomer
reincarnate perhaps.

Graeme
Sorry, couldn't resist, still waiting for the tablets to kick in.

"Chris Marriott" wrote:


"Martin Frey" wrote
..
Dr John Stockton wrote:

This interesting predictable astronomical event will, of course, be
ignored by significantly more people in the EU than any previous such
event (AFAIK).

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.


There's nobody currently alive who saw the last one, is there?

Regards,

Chris

Exactly. I am not sure what Dr Stockton's point was - but if it was
that there was great public awarenss, interest in or knowledge of
events such as this in the 19th century than there is today, it is
defintiely and utterly wrong. Why even Vega made the 1 o'clock BBC1
news today in quite an extended piece.

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On 1 Dec 2003 07:53:43 -0800, (Abdul Ahad)
wrote:

I hope viewers are not too disappointed, Abdul, when they try to
observe it.
The transit will take place on June 8th!

Well I apologise if anyone has already booked their vacation abroad on
the basis of my post, yes you're absolutely right - its due on the 8th
June!

Looking through an old exercise book of mine from school ... I used
some low precision formulae and approx. orbital elements for both
Venus and the Sun back in May 1985(!), did some calculations back
then, which put the mid-transit time at very roughly around 0830 hrs
ET on 8th June 2004... I found the sub-solar point (where the Sun is
directly overhead at mid-transit) here on the Earth's surface was at
approx. 23 degrees north latitude and 52 degrees east longitude
(somewhere in the United Arab Emirates?).

Is anyone able to confirm the location where the Sun (and Venus) will
be at the zenith at mid-transit on the day?

Rough estimation (using Starry Night) gives 23N 56E.
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Pete
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CCD/digicam astronomy

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:48:08 -0000, in uk.sci.astronomy , "Chris
Marriott" wrote:


"Martin Frey" wrote in message
.. .
Dr John Stockton wrote:

This interesting predictable astronomical event will, of course, be
ignored by significantly more people in the EU than any previous such
event (AFAIK).

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.


There's nobody currently alive who saw the last one, is there?

Talk about missing the punchline....

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In message , Martin Frey
writes
Dr John Stockton wrote:

This interesting predictable astronomical event will, of course, be
ignored by significantly more people in the EU than any previous such
event (AFAIK).

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.

I've got "Dr." Stockton kill filed, but the obvious corollary to his
post is that it will be seen by more people than have ever seen a
transit before this one.
In fact, given how rare these events are and how they usually occur in
highly inaccessible parts of the world, the number of people using
hydrogen-alpha filters and other high-tech gadgets will probably be more
than all the previous witnesses!
Technically, he's right. The population of Europe is much larger than
for the last one, and the EU didn't exist then, so even one person
ignoring it would be a significant number.
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JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.sci.astronomy, Martin Frey posted
at Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:37:15 :-
Dr John Stockton wrote:

This interesting predictable astronomical event will, of course, be
ignored by significantly more people in the EU than any previous such
event (AFAIK).

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.

The word "such" refers to "interesting predictable astronomical event",
without being specific to transits. The recent eclipses, for example,
are included. If I had meant "transit" there, I would have written it.

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"Dr John Stockton" wrote
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Avoid redundancy.

some Astro stuff via astro.htm, gravity0.htm; quotes.htm; pascal.htm; &c, &c.

Avoid redundancy.

No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News.

Capitalise correctly.

Dr John Stockton wrote:

JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.sci.astronomy, Martin Frey posted
at Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:37:15 :-
Dr John Stockton wrote:

This interesting predictable astronomical event will, of course, be
ignored by significantly more people in the EU than any previous such
event (AFAIK).

I don't think so. I have not met one single person who saw the last
one.

The word "such" refers to "interesting predictable astronomical event",
without being specific to transits. The recent eclipses, for example,
are included. If I had meant "transit" there, I would have written it.

The word "this" refers to the thread subject - Venus - or were you by
some chance wandering off-topic?

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Martin Frey
http://www.hadastro.org.uk
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