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C. Barclay FRAS Blackett Observatory Marlborough College

Venus’ legacy Appeal-3 9 th June 2012. C. Barclay FRAS Blackett Observatory Marlborough College GreenTempleton College and Oxford Astrophysics. Image: NASA APOD. The Solar System’s major planets to scale (diameters). Composite images NASA Hubble.

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C. Barclay FRAS Blackett Observatory Marlborough College

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  1. Venus’ legacy Appeal-3 9th June 2012 C. Barclay FRAS Blackett Observatory Marlborough College GreenTempleton College and Oxford Astrophysics

  2. Image: NASA APOD

  3. The Solar System’s major planets to scale (diameters) Composite images NASA Hubble

  4. The Solar System’s major planets to scale (diameters) Composite images NASA Hubble

  5. Image: CEB

  6. Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence

  7. Movie from the Liverpool Telescope on la Palma thanks to Andy Newsam (LJM Uni)

  8. Nasa.gov

  9. Johannes Kepler 1571-1631

  10. Jeremiah Horrocks 1618-1649 eso.org

  11. Oh! Then farewell, thou beauteous queen! Thy sway may soften natures yet untamed, Whose breast, bereft of the native fury, Then shall learn the milder virtues. We, with anxious mind, follow thy latest footsteps here, And far as thought can carry us; My labours now bedeck the monument for future times Which thou at parting left us. Thy return Posterity shall witness; years must roll away, But then at length the splendid sight Again shall greet our distant children’s eyes.

  12. Sir Edmond Halley1656 -1743

  13. Transit of Mercury 7th May 2003 Photo: CEB MCBO

  14. Evolutionnews.org

  15. mtholyoke.edu

  16. Replica Endeavour

  17. James Cook 1728-1779 normanclarkphotography.org

  18. transitofvenus.nl

  19. mhs.ox.ac.uk

  20. transitofvenus.org

  21. Fred Espenak

  22. sunearthday.nasa.gov

  23. Thomas Hornsby 1733-1810 Picture thanks to Hornsby family

  24. Hornsby’s calculations from the 1769 transit – MHS Radcliffe M7

  25. Radcliffe Observatory now Green Templeton College Image: CEB

  26. 1882 Transit (USNO)

  27. 05.37UT image CEB

  28. The sixth witnessed transit of Venus June 8th 2004 06.00UT image CEB

  29. eso.org

  30. Calculated value of 1 AU Blackett Observatory timings gave 149, 527, 922 km 1 AU = 149 597 871 km (accepted value from RADAR measurements)

  31. Kepler – search field kepler.nasa.gov

  32. Transit dimming

  33. Period: 1.22 Earth days Orbit radius: 0.0256AU Mass: 1.11 Jupiter masses Radius: 1.56 Jupiter radii Transit light curve by Wasp 33b (discovered April 2010) across an A5 star Philip Wetton Telescope, Oxford Astrophysics. Dr Fraser Clarke, 20th October 2010

  34. kepler.nasa.gov

  35. .nasa.gov

  36. Image: CEB

  37. Image: CEB

  38. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711-1765

  39. Exoplanet searches Image: NASA Stereo B

  40. Moon 6/6, Jupiter 20/9 and Saturn 21/12 Earth transit from Jupiter 5/1/14 Image: NASA/ESA/D. Ehrenreich

  41. Earth transit from Jupiter 5/1/14 Image: NASA Cassini

  42. Any questions? Further information: www.blackettobservatory.org and ‘Transiting the Sun’ – John Woodruff (2012). Huxley Scientific Press, Oxford

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