Re: [Utah-astronomy] Astronomy Investigations of the Venus Transit

Here you go Rodger, good call: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/The-Exoplanet-Venus-155964305.html On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Rodger C. Fry <rcfry@comcast.net> wrote:

All,

I was wondering if anyone has heard of any university or observatory that have research planned around the transit of Venus. It seems to me that it would be a great time for a comparative study of the change in light curve of the Sun at the Venus transit and compare this with Earth-like exo-planet transits. Also, I think it would be a good time to do spectroscopic studies of Venus' atmosphere with the sun behind it with today's technology. Has anyone heard of this being done?

Thanks

Rodger Fry