http://www.transitofvenus.nl What's new at www.transitofvenus.nl http://www.transitofvenus.nl/details.html When the sun is low in the sky, you can't make reliable contact timings of the transit of Venus, because of the bad seeing. A sun's height of 8 degrees is generally regarded as the minimum height at which good observations of the contacts can be obtained. Therefore, I added an option to show the times at which the sun is 8 degrees high.Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.transitofvenus.nl/history.html The Google Earth file, which shows the locations of places where the transits of Venus have been observed in the past, now comes with a timeslider. In Google Earth 4.3 or later, turn on the sun, see how astronomers experienced transit day in the past by moving the sun along the sky.Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.transitofvenus.nl/times.html I added a calculator to compute the circumstances for all transits from 1639 to 2117. The page shows the times of contact, the times of sunrise and sunset, and much more.Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:00:00 GMT http://www.transitofvenus.nl/details.html When you compute your local cirumstances for the 2012 transit of Venus, from now on the mean total cloud amount for June is given as well. The mean cloud amount indicates the probability whether your observation of the transit will be interfered with clouds.Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.transitofvenus.nl/details.html I further improved the predictions calculator. The diagram showing the path of Venus with respect to the zenith now also indicates which phases are visible from the given location. Also, I added the zones of visibility to the zoomable map. The automatic geographic contents is now obtained from MaxMind, whereas GeoNames provides the time zone information.Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:48:00 GMT