Venus 2004 Transit website and projects
from: Udo Backhaus, Erhard Hoerber
We have just slightly updated our project site
http://didaktik.physik.uni-essen.de/~backhaus/VenusProject.htm
You can find there six projects for preparation. Most of the related pages are up to now empty but they will be filled in the near future.
The preparation projects are related to
Project 1: Measuring the radius of Venus' orbit
Project 2: Determing of the own geographical coordinates and the projected distance of different observers
Project 3: Determing the radius of the Earth
Project 4: Measuring the angular radius of the Sun
Project 5: Exercises in photographing the Sun and exact position measurements on the Sun's disc (Sunspots)
Project 6: The Transit of Mercury on May 7th, 2003
With our best regards
Udo Backhaus, Erhard Hoerber