If you are a high school teacher or student, these documents will show you how to use the collected images of the Sun during the Venus transit to:
- Measure the Earth – Sun distance (PDF file | HTML)
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Calculate the Latitude of a place via the Midnight Sun phenomenon (PDF file | HTML)
Follow the activities on astroaula.com - Calculating Earth-Sun distance
Help us with your feedback: Students or Teachers/Educators
Collection of images: Australia - Japan - Norway
The educational activities will be managed through the e-learning open software platform moodle (moodle.org).
More information about the event can be found here.
Internet Directions
- Safe methods for solar observation:
http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/eye-safety - Data and Predictions:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html - Description of Kepler’s laws:
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html - Description of the calculation referred to the solar parallax with examples:
http://serviastro.am.ub.es/Twiki/bin/view/ServiAstro/CalculTerrasolapartirDeVenus
and
http://www.imcce.fr/vt2004/en/fiches/fiche_n05_08_eng.html
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