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2012 Transit of Venus in Space Engine and Stellarium Astronomy Software

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Published on Jun 3, 2012

June 5-6, 2012 will be your last chance to see the Transit of Venus until the year 2117! In this video, using astronomy software Space Engine and Stellarium, I do my best to explain what a transit is, why it happens so infrequently and simulate what it will look like from various locations across the world.

Much of the information here was found in Dr. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog post about the transit, which also includes links to many online livestreams of the event: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bad...

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Space Engine: http://en.spaceengine.org/
Stellarium: http://stellarium.org/

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  • TehAwesomeKid

    Fucking clouds.

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  • onthespoke2

    Probably the worst thing about being a vampire is that although you live long enough to see multiple transits, you can't actually safely look at them.

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  • Minekratt Brony

    107 years to go!

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  • Supercharged2160

    and u will be killed if u go outside during the day

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    in reply to onthespoke2 (Show the comment)
  • Bob Kerman

    i missed it... SCIENCE, YOU BETTER FIND A WAY TO MAKE LIFE LONGER.

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  • shredhappy101

    I think you meant awe lmao

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  • PhoenixBlaze15

    A friend of mine told me about the transit of Venus days in advance so he was able to get a set of specialized glasses for viewing. On the day of the transit, we found a spot to view, I put on the glasses and saw nothing but black, but when I turned to the direction of the sun and it looked like a very dim light bulb about to go out in a dark hallway, then I noticed the transit. I had never expected to be so excited to see it I was in "Ah". I'm thankful for my friend for sharing that day with me

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  • emangamedude6

    It was to cloudy where I was :,(

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  • Paul118GF

    no it would be more like

    SURE

    X.X "..."

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  • TheNirvanafan27

    didn't the guy that discovered this event die before it happened

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  • omegaprime86

    kid: can we go to venus its warm.

    stupid dad:SURE

    kid and dad: OUCH OUCH WAAAA FUCK ITS SKORCHING

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  • KFCArbiter

    Venus hungers for more spaceships!!!

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