The transit of Venus Photography: Since the invention of the telescope has only 6

Transit of Venus has finally arrived! Of this century the last transit of Venus, all of us less likely to live up to the next arrival of the transit of Venus, because that would occur in 2117. The current National Geographic website has published a number of transit of Venus, and Venus's picture selected, including the 2004 transit of Venus photographic works, as well as the transit of Venus will be the scientific community and so on.

Three, people around the world awaited this week, to meet this century, the last transit of Venus Day Sky's arrival. This planetarium is very rare, in fact since the invention of the telescope so far of 400 years ago, the human total only experienced six times the transit of Venus.

The so-called transit, refers to a planet run to a location between the earth and the sun planetarium. Must demand due to the transit the Fengyun planets to the ground - between the orbital position, of course, only two places of Venus and Mercury planet could play that role.

The last transit of Venus occurred in 2004, as shown in this photo: a small black disk of Venus from the golden circle in front side of the new-born sun slowly by. This photo was taken on the coast of North Carolina, USA. And this time the transit of Venus, if you miss, the next occurrence of that will have to wait until 2117 before the arrival.

Jay Pasadena Cove by Jay Pasachoff, Williams College in Massachusetts, an astronomer, he said: "through the filter membrane or other security measures, people will be able to see a small black silhouette from the the sun in front of slowly passed entirely through the the heliographic will need six hours. "he said:" this scene does not so earth-shattering, but the sinking, hanging in the sun in front of the black dot is really worth a visit.