The research work of the Taurus Hill Observatory will be presented in this year EPSC (European Planetary Science Congress) held in Madrid, Spain, 23.-28.9. This years poster title is “Transit Observations in Taurus Hill Observatory” and it is focused on Venus transit observations 2004 and 2012. There is also one chapter about the exoplanet observations. […]
Posts Categorized: Venus Transit 2012
New pictures from the Venus Transit 2012.
Part of the h-alpha pictures are now processed and uploaded to the Venus Transit 2012 gallery (text are in Finnish). Processing the h-alpha pictures is very challenging and time-consuming. THO “Venus Transit 2012 – Nordkapp Expedition” took about 700 pictures from the transit of Venus. We plan to upload the best pictures to our gallery, […]
Venus transit observed by the Taurus Hill Observatory “Nordkapp Expedition”-team.
Taurus Hill Observatory research team “Transit of Venus 2012 – Nordkapp Expedition” succeeded to photograph the Venus transit 5.-6.6.2012 in Northern Norway near the North Cape (Nordkapp) in small village called Russenes. Here are the preliminary results and first photos of the event. More photos later in this site. Observers and the expedition members: Jari […]
Venus Transit 2012 is near.
The Venus will transit over the Sun 6th of June. Transit starts 22:09 UTC and ends 04:49 UTC. Therefore if you want to see the whole transit in Europe, you have to travel as north as possible. Part of the he Taurus Hill Observatory research team will travel to Nordkapp that is the northest place […]
THO research team travels to Nordkapp for Venus transit 2012.
Part of the of the THO reasearch team will travel to Nordkapp (Norway) to observe and photograph the Venus transit 2012. Last time the Venus transited the Sun, there was a big observing campaign in THO. THO team photographed over 12 000 pictures from the 2004 transit. Venus transit 2004 was also the kick-off for […]