Last contact for 105 years

After seven hours of dedicated observing – often grabbing opportunities between breaks in the cloud – our Svalbard team watched Venus leave the solar disc. The next transit of Venus will not be visible from Earth until 2117.

Third contact - can you see the black drop effect? Credit: Michel Breitfellner and Miguel Perez Ayucar

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