Links: 2004

Sketch of 2004 transit of Venus by Arvind Paranjpyehttp://arvindparanjpye.blogspot.in/2012/02/sketching-transit-of-venus-8th-june.html
Sketchings of the 2004 transit of Venus reveal visual highlights as Venus crosses solar limb; by Arvind Paranjpye.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SENL/SENL200407B.pdf
Reports of 2004 Transit of Venus; from Solar Eclipse Newsletter (SEN).  See Volume 9, Issue 7, pages 47-80.  SEN captures excerpts from dialogue on blogs and listserves that discuss accounts of seeing the 2004 transit of Venus and its implications.

history/2004/195-2004-transit-of-venus-images
Diverse images and video of the 2004 transit of Venus from sites around the world (and in space, too); from professional and amateur observers alike.  Shown are Dutch Open Telescope image and an image projected through a telescope.


GOES spacecraft images 2004 transit of Venushttp://sxidata.ngdc.noaa.gov/archive/browse/special/SXI_SPECIAL_20040608_VENUS_09H.MPG
In images by the GOES satellites Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI), Venus appears as a dark disk about 1/30th the Sun’s apparent diameter. Since the Sun’s corona extends well above the disk, Venus was visible in silhouette for approximately 9 hours, versus the 6 hours seen from Earth. The path across the disk is from the southeast to the southwest.  Movie (1.9 MB MPEG-1, 7 sec.) was created by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.



Color-coded map shows world visibility of 2004 transit of Venus; by Lisa Taylor2004 Transit of Venus Map shows world visibility in 3 colors for simplicity. 

Crowd Gathers to Witness 2004 Transit of Venushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS1O6C2dQ40
Video: A crowd gathered before sunrise on June 8, 2004, to witness the rare Transit of Venus in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA. Though clouds threatened to obscure the spectacle, the sun emerged in time for the audience to observe through telescopes, rear projection screens, and solar viewers. An audible time signal in the background allowed individuals to time the instant when the black dot of Venus just touched the inside edge of the sun, as global expeditions had done in past centuries. The last transit of Venus in our lifetimes occurs June 5-6, 2012.

Letter of congratulations from US Secretary of Education Rod Paige to PHM images/stories/congrats.jpg
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige congratulates the Penn-Harris-Madison Corporation and its families for global outreach related to the 2004 Transit of Venus.

http://home.comcast.net/~edwelda/site/?/page/Transit_of_Venus/
A First-in-a-Lifetime Transit; an account of the 2004 Transit of Venus, by Imelda B. Joson.