DEPARTAMENT D'ASTRONOMIA I METEOROLOGIA

        General

• http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/transit/transit.html : All sorts of information on transits, including extensive catalogs of the transits of Mercury and Venus.
• http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mercury_transit_news_030418.html : Page with general information on the May 7, 2003, transit of Mercury: what it is, how to observe it, ...
• http://www.transitofvenus.org/ : Excellent page with information on the 2004 transit of Venus. Extensive collection of links.
• http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/obs_ucm/tran_mer_03/transito_mercurio_mayo03.html : Web page on the May 7, 2003, transit of Mercury at the Departamento de Astronomía of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. With a large collection of links (in Spanish).
• http://nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000/POSTERS/TOM1999.jpg : Explanation of the black drop effect (very technical).

        Live Webcasts

• http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/Mercurytransit7May2003/ : Live webcast from La Palma.
• http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/obs_ucm/tran_mer_03/tran_mer_03_imag.html: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• http://www.planetmad.es/03noticias04.htm: Planetario de Madrid
• http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_05_07/: Website of the SOHO mission.
• http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/vt-2004/mt-2003/mt-display.html: European Southern Observatory
• http://bass2000.obspm.fr/sites/mt2003/mt2003.php?lang=en: L'Observatore de Paris
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/mercurius/transit.html: Live images from Netherlands
• http://gong.nso.edu/mercury_transit03/: NSO/GONG

        History

• http://www.dsellers.demon.co.uk/venus/ven_ch1.htm: Electronic abridged version of the book The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun by D. Sellers, where the history of the transits of Venus and their relationship to the determination of the Earth-Sun distance is discussed.
• http://www.dsellers.demon.co.uk/venus/ven_ch8.htm: Communication presented by Edmond Halley in 1716 before the Royal Society de Londres proposing the method of the transits of Venus to measure the Earth-Sun distance.

        Educational projects

• http://didaktik.physik.uni-essen.de/~backhaus/VenusProject.htm : Educational project to reproduce the measurement of the Astronomical Unit using the 2004 transit of Venus.
• http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/vt-2004/index.html: Educational project of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

        Others:

• http://www.am.ub.es : Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia of the Universitat de Barcelona (in Catalan, Spanish, and English).

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