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(Williams College Transit of Venus Team)
with John Seiradakis and George Asimellis (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece);
expedition run with Bryce Babcock (Williams College) and Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona)
Glenn Schneider / Jay Pasachoff stills and movies from TRACE spacecraft
A full set of Schneider / Pasachoff ingress and egress movies
A closeup look at the blackdrop effect
Effect of the transit on the Total Solar Irradiance
TRACE stills and movies directly from Lockheed Martin Solar Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL)
Observations from the Swedish Solar Telescope, La Palma
The general description of the ESO project
Their general description of the measurement of the Astronomical Unit (AU)
with a little more at http://www.vt-2004.org/central/cd-observers/obs-cal.html
and see http://www.vt-2004.org/auresults/ for final results and for more technical details, including two Explanatory Notes that can be downloaded (pdf).
Trip photos: |
The Williams College expedition team | |
Venus photos: |
Williams College Expedition images from Greece
SBIG CCD on the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki's 20-cm refractor |
http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/gallery_08jun04.htm
http://www1.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_184.html
http://www1.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/venus_transit.html
http://vt-2004.kva.astro.su.se/
From HM Nautical Almanac Office, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K.
European Southern Observatory's gallery and the determination of the Astronomical Unit
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040609.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040610.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040611.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040615.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040623.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040717.html
Jay M. Pasachoff
Bryce A. Babcock
David Butts ‘06
Joe Gangestad ‘06
Owen Westbrook ’06
Alan Cordova '06
Kayla Gaydosh ’05
Rob Wittenmyer ’98
In Williamstown:
Steven Souza
all work in collaboration with:
Glenn Schneider, University of Arizona
in Greece in collaboration with:
John Seiradakis, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
The expedition was sponsored by a grant from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society. We also thank Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, for a student support grant.
We also thank WIT 2004, Sarah Croft '04, and Teri-Ann Suer '05 for their assistance.
Globe and Mail, Toronto, 5/16/04
The Chronicle Section: Research & Publishing
Volume 50, Issue 36, Page A16
Boston Globe, 6/01/04 pdf or html
Associated Press article, 6/08/04
European Southern Observatory's report including list of links
Daniel Fischer's list of links
Tomáš Maruška of Slovakia managed to image the ISS crossing the Sun while Venus was also in transit
Glenn Schneider did some processing of Tomáš Maruška's image
From James Dire, US Coast Guard Academy
dire@dcseq.uscga.edu
airplane and transit; Quicktime by Dr. James R. Dire, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
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