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...participated in the Festival of the Transit of Venus, an event surrounding a rare astronomical occurrence that drew a community of astronomy fans to brave the early morning hours on Tuesday. Gathering at the Science Center, a diverse crowd observed the planet Venus traverse the disk of the Sun, and celebrated with a series of scientific and historical talks chronicling Harvard’s role in significant observations reaching back hundreds of years...
Observers viewed the event through the original telescope of Harvard astronomer John Winthrop, whose observations of a Venus transit in 1769 from Harvard Yard helped determine the distance from the Earth...
...transits are highly rare events, occurring in pairs eight years apart with more than a century between the pairs. The most recent Venus transits occurred in 1761, 1769, 1874 and 1882. The next one will take place in 2012, again in the month of June...
...Transit For the first time in more than 100 years, Venus crosses in front...
...1880s The transits of Venus in these decades were media events, featured in popular articles all over the world. The U.S. Naval Observatory alone sent out several expeditions, left. By then, it was easy to figure out longitude and latitude, and good telescopes were available. But it was still impossible to get precise timing measurements because just before Venus leaves the sun's disk, an optical illusion makes the planet seem to ooze toward the edge...