A210493 Transits of Venus since the invention of the telescope by Julian Date (rounded).

2317111, 2320030, 2364409, 2367328, 2405867, 2408786, 2453165, 2456085, 2458099, 2497542, 2541921, 2544841, 2583379, 2586298

Offset

1,1

Comments

"Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that generally repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 commensurabilities." - Wikipedia

a(n) is approximately 365.25 * A171467(n+46). - Charles R Greathouse IV, Jan 24 2013

References

Jean Meeus, Transits, Willmann-Bell, 1989.

Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, Second Ed., 1999.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..14.

Fred Espenak, The Ultimate Resource for Eclipse Photography, 2001.

NASA Science, Saturn's Transit of Venus on Dec. 21, 2012

NASA Eclipse Web Site, Planetary Transits Across the Sun

NASA Eclipse Web Site, Eclipses and Transits of 2012

NASA Eclipse Web Site, 2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus

NASA Eclipse Web Site, Six Millennium Catalog of Venus Transits: 2000 BCE to 4000 CE

NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center, Calendars, by L. E. Doggett

The United States Naval Observatory (USNO), Astronomical Applications Department, Julian Date Converter

Wikipedia, 2012 transit of Venus

Example

05:19 07 Dec 1631 = 2317110.721528
18:25 04 Dec 1639 = 2320030.267361
05:19 06 Jun 1761 = 2364408.721528
22:25 03 Jun 1769 = 2367328.434028
04:05 09 Dec 1874 = 2405866.670139
17:06 06 Dec 1882 = 2408786.212500
08:19 08 Jun 2004 = 2453164.846528
01:28 06 Jun 2012 = 2456084.561111
02:48 11 Dec 2117 = 2458098.616667
16:01 08 Dec 2125 = 2497542.167361
11:30 11 Jun 2247 = 2541920.979167
04:36 09 Jun 2255 = 2544840.691667
01:40 13 Dec 2360 = 2583378.569444
14:43 10 Dec 2368 = 2586298.113194

Crossrefs

Cf. A171467.

Sequence in context: A358872 A252395 A256733 * A154676 A250926 A278200

Adjacent sequences: A210490 A210491 A210492 * A210494 A210495 A210496

Keyword

nonn

Author

Fred Espenak (fred.espenak-1(AT)nasa.gov) or (info01(AT)MrEclipse.com) and Robert G. Wilson v, Jan 23 2013

Status

approved