Venus appeared in the field of view of ESA/NASA’s SOHO satellite on 1 June, and has been fast approaching ahead of transit on 5-6 June. SOHO’s LASCO instrument won’t be able to see the transit because its coronagraph blocks out the bright solar disc so that it can study the fine detail of the Sun’s atmosphere. Here it provides a unique view of the soon-t0-be transiting planet, which is currently difficult to observe from Earth while it is bathed in the Sun’s glare.
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- Astronomers without borders
- ESA’s 2004 transit activities
- Hubble to use Moon as mirror to see transit
- NASA eclipse website
- Observing and photographing the transit
- Our last transit of Venus (movie)
- SOHO’s view of the 2004 transit
- Sun-Earth Day
- Transit of Venus on Flickr
- Transit of Venus Project
- Transit of Venus.org
- Venus Express in depth
- Venus Transit Monitor
- Venus Twilight Experiment
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