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Collection--Transit of Venus. Artifacts, prints, and photographs are among the transit of Venus items on display at the PHM Planetarium & Air/Space Museum in Mishawaka, Indiana. doppel.jpg Venus in her chariot passes between the sun and earth; from Johann Doppelmayer's Atlas Coelestis, 1742. doppel_predict.jpg In 1742, two decades before the next transit would be visible, Johann Doppelmayer's Atlas Coelestis touted the upcoming 1761 transit and illustrated Venus' predicted path across the sun. This side-view of the sun shows the path of Venus transiting from left to lower right in 1761. A similar descending transit will occur June 8, 2004. The very rare phenomenon of Venus whose body will pass like a spot beneath the shining globe of the Sun. The text within the sun's body reads: The conjunction of the Sun with Venus in the year 1761 on the day June 6, at 1:46 PM at Nuremberg according to the calculation of Halley, seen near the descending node. crabtree.jpgThe First Observation of the Transit of Venus.

The life of Prince Charles in photos. The life of Prince Charles in photos: Image Credits: Did you like this? Share it: England , Life , Photos , Prince Charles , Wales : Living , Photos Popular on Web Right Now !!! Transit of Venus Today (in Pictures) "QUANTUM SHOT" #776 Link - article by Avi Abrams June 6, 2012 - The Last Transit of our Lifetime Something lovely happens in the skies today... Venus is a strangely errant planet, having the most complicated orbit when observed from Earth. We are lucky to observe this transit (basically the "Venus eclipse of the Sun") in our lifetime.

(images credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video) Gives you the proper sense of scale, doesn't it? (images via) "Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. This is how it was illustrated by Nitzschke (see quite large collection of historical Transit of Venus illustrations here): An glorious depiction of the Transit of Venus June 6th, 1761, conjoined Mercury, by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. "Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus A.D. 1639" by Ford Madox Brown, a mural at Manchester Town Hall: (image via) Also check out this fabulous plate from observations in Guadalajara, Mexico, courtesy of Durruty Jesus de Alba Martinez: (image via)

Vintage Printable. Totally Useless Signs Gallery (20 Photos. YOUNG GALLERY. UK Nick Brandt photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record an elegy and last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man. The work is collected across a trilogy of books containing photographs shot 2000-2012, which progress through an ever-darkening vision of this disappearing world. Together the titles of each book form a complete sentence : Brandt has had multiple solo gallery and museum shows around the world, including in New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles. Born and raised in England, he now lives in the southern Californian mountains.

Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. I’ve always thought this something of a wasted opportunity. Why the animals of Africa in particular? My jp are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. Nick Brandt April 2004.