... ARTICLE: The Adventurous Search For The Astronomical Unit . ... Kepler himself had suggested to use the rare occasions of Venus transiting (crossing) the solar disk to measure our distance to the planet. ... Due to the orbital inclination of Venus against the ecliptic of 3.5°, a Venus transit is so rare that it happens only at intervals of 121.5 years, 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and so on. ... Crabtree witnessing the transit of Venus 1639 . ... Transits of Venus - The Quest for the Solar Parallax...

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... This is because, while one always tries and plans that such an exercise will never be needed, it often proves to be a very useful process to have undertaken, as it points out what needs to be better documented, recorded, and what tools and software are really needed for events like this. ... There was/is little quantitative data in the night logs, which is not very surprizing, given their nature (i.e. a verbal description of the night's activities. ... The effeciency of log2asc needs to be improved....

Winer Observatory P.O. Box 797, Sonoita, Arizona 85637-0797, USA . ... Outreach . Projects . ... Science . ... Participating in Project ASTRO, a national program to assist teachers in grades 4 through 12 in teaching astronomy . ... June, 1990: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "Engineering Big Science Projects" . ... May 4, 2007: National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Friday Science Lunch Talks: "The Ohio State University KELT Telescope -- Early Results" . ...

... AMATEUR TELESCOPE MAKERS OF BOSTON The Am ateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an am ateur astronom y club devoted to telescope m aking, observing, and the study of the stars. ... These m onthly m agazines, which can be found on m ost newsstands, contain general astronom y articles, m onthly observing inform ation, and star charts. ... For general observing inform ation on the Moon, planets, and sky phenom ena SKY REPORT, (617) 496-7827, Harvard-Sm ithsonian Center for Astrophysics. ...

Posting Observations . ... You will need to subscribe to vsnet-acc (to allow you access to post your observations). ... VSNet has several different e-mail sigs, and sub sigs. ... These list are controlled by a software package called " Majordomo ", which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from these list with an e-mail message (automated). ... Once you have subscribed to vsnet-acc (which will only send you a welcome message back and nothing else) you can post to the other list. ...

... Structure of Data . ... Catalog . ... The SAI OCL Catalog site provides several VO-enabled modes of operation: . VO-enabled catalog data analysis from a browser . ... Endpoint URL is http://ocl.sai.msu.ru/catalog/conesearch/ . ... VO-enabled catalog analysis from a browser . Presently, this recipe works with Firefox (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Internet Explorer (Windows) and Opera (Windows) browsers with Java plugin 1.6 installed. ... Main TOPCAT window with SAI OCL catalog loaded will appear. ...