2012 Transit of Venus in Space Engine and Stellarium Astronomy Software

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.

[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.

[Minekratt Brony]

107 years to go!

[Supercharged2160]

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

[Bob Kerman]

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

[shredhappy101]

I think you meant awe lmao

[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

[emangamedude6]

It was to cloudy where I was :,(

[Paul118GF]

no it would be more like

SURE

X.X "..."

[TheNirvanafan27]

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

[omegaprime86]

kid: can we go to venus its warm.

stupid dad:SURE

kid and dad: OUCH OUCH WAAAA FUCK ITS SKORCHING

[KFCArbiter]

Venus hungers for more spaceships!!!