Watch Live Webcast Transit Of Venus

SWAN Live Webcast: Begins Tuesday June 5, 2012 | 7:00 PM | EDT | USA

Sky Watchers’ Association of North Bengal — Transit OF Venus — SWAN operates from Siliguri, the city at foothills in northern part of West Bengal state of India and plays the role of gateway for entire North Eastern India, Sikkim Bhutan and Nepal.

NASA Live Webcast: Tuesday June 5, 2012 | 5:45 PM | EDT | USA

This webcast event will run through the entirety of the transit of Venus, beginning at 9:45 p.m. UTC (11:45 a.m. local Hawaiian time or 5:45 p.m. EDT).

NASA TV: Live Webcast Streams

NASA TV: International Space Station Windows Media Player

NASA EDGE: Live From Mauna Kea — Hawaii

Coca-Cola Space Science Center: Tuesday June 5, 2012 | 5:30 PM | EDT | USA

MEAD Observatory: Georgia — Live Webcast — Columbus State University

In an effort to make this event more accessible to the public, Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center (CCSSC) has partnered with NASA and the International Space School Education Trust (ISSET) to provide a multi-continent webcast of the 2012 Transit of Venus. Audiences throughout the world, including those in Georgia, will have an opportunity to experience this entire event safely via the internet and NASA TV. CCSSC teams will travel to both the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and the Australian outback near Alice Springs to be in optimal observing conditions to acquire images and video of the entire transit.

Observation Notes

In North America, the Caribbean, and northwestern South America, the beginning of the transit will be visible on June 5 until sunset.

From sunrise on June 6, the end of the transit will be visible from South Asia, the Middle East, east Africa and most of Europe.

Observing the Sun directly without appropriate protection can damage or destroy retinal cells, causing temporary or permanent blindness.

Amateur astronomers can safely view the event with solar eclipse glasses, and get ready for the next exciting stargazing party with your favorite telescope.

Do not miss this scientific event, because the next transit of Venus will not occur until December of 2117.

Contacts (Source: Wikipedia)

There are four named “contacts” during a transit — moments when the circumference of Venus touches the circumference of the Sun at a single point:

1. First contact (external ingress): Venus is entirely outside the disk of the Sun, moving inward
2. Second contact (internal ingress): Venus is entirely inside the disk of the Sun, moving further inward
3. Third contact (internal egress): Venus is entirely inside the disk of the Sun, moving outward
4. Fourth contact (external egress): Venus is entirely outside the disk of the Sun, moving outward.

A fifth named point is that of greatest transit, when Venus is at the middle of its path across the solar disk and which marks the halfway point in the timing of the transit.

Thank you for joining us!