Venus appear as a small dark dot crossing the sun’s face for the last time in this century on June 5-6, 2012. Last transit of Venus in our lifetimes! Get ready.


The brightest planet, Venus, is due to pass right in front of the sun, to stage one of the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena: a transit of Venus across the sun’s face. This upcoming transit of Venus will be the last one for the 21st century. It will take place across a period of nearly seven hours on June 5-6, 2012. During the transit, Venus will appear in silhouette as a small, dark dot moving in front of the solar disk. This exceedingly rare astronomical event – a transit of Venus – won’t happen again until December 11, 2117.



Who will see the June 5-6, 2012 transit of Venus?

Depending on where you live worldwide, the transit of Venus will happen on June 5 or 6, 2012. If you live in the world’s Western Hemisphere (North America, northwestern South America, Hawaii, Greenland or Iceland), the transit will start in the afternoon hours on June 5. In the world’s Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia or New Zealand), the transit will first be seen at sunrise or in the morning hours on June 6.



Check out an observatory or astronomy club near you to see if it is hosting a public presentation of the event. Or, look for a webcam. As the time for the transit approaches, return to this post. We’ll be gathering info on public presentations and webcams.

From the mainland U.S., the sun will set as the transit is still taking place (on June 5), though the West Coast will get to see more hours of the transit than the East Coast does. Here in Austin, Texas, we’ll see the first half of the transit, while the second half will take place after the sun goes beneath our horizon. In North America, it’ll be to our advantage to find a level western horizon, as the sun will be low in the west at the time of the transit.

As for the world’s Eastern Hemisphere, it’s as equally important to find a level eastern horizon on June 6. For Africa, Europe, much of Asia and western Australia, the sun will rise (on June 6) as the transit is taking place. Elsewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere, the transit will start in the morning hours on June 6.

Local clock times for the Venus transit in your time zone

Many people find it difficult to translate the Universal Time of astronomical events to the clock time in their own time zones. Fortunately, we are happy to link you to a site that lets you find out the clock times of the transit for your own time zone, with absolutely no need to convert from Universal Time.

Source : http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essent...n-in-june-2012

Coincidentally this rare phenomenon occurred on my birthday , but clouds didn't let me see it

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Venus........... A small dot is visible in the right side of sun

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ohh i missed that, as its time was 5am to 10am.any person get chance to view this scene?

• Venus is known as Earths' twin sister because of its similar size and proximity to each other.
  
• Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide.
  
• Venus rotates so slowly that it orbits the sun faster than it can make one whole rotation on its axis. In other words, Venus has a longer day than year.
  
• It takes 243 days for Venus to make a rotation.
  
• And it takes 224 days for Venus to orbit around the sun.
  
• Venus is the most widely explored planet aside from our own Earth. Numerous space probes have been sent to Venus to gather data and some have landed on the surface.
  
• It is believed that Venus used to have bodies of water similar to Earth, but dried up over a period of 300 million years when the sun began admitting more solar energy after the sun's infancy stage.
  
• The clouds of Venus is filled with sulfuric acid.
  
• Venus has mountains that are higher than Earth. Maat Mons is more than 5 miles high.
  
• Venus is the brightest planet viewed from Earth.
  
• The planet rotates from East to West. The only other planet that does this is Uranus.

Source : http://www.planetfacts.net/Venus-Facts.html

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