Transit of Venus
Past and future transits

Transit of Venus

Section Title: Past and future transits
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Past transits of Venus

Date(s) of transit	Time (UTC)	Notes	Transit path (HM Nautical Almanac Office)

Start	Mid	End

23 November 1396	15:45	19:27	23:09	Last transit not part of a pair	[1]

25–26 May 1518	22:46 25 May	01:56 26 May	05:07 26 May	[2]

23 May 1526	16:12	19:35	21:48	Last transit before invention of telescope	[3]

7 December 1631	03:51	05:19	06:47	Predicted by Kepler	[4]

4 December 1639	14:57	18:25	21:54	First transit observed by Horrocks and Crabtree	[5]

6 June 1761	02:02	05:19	08:37	Lomonosov, Chappe d'Auteroche and others observe from Russia; Mason and Dixon observe from the Cape of Good Hope. John Winthrop observes from St.	[6]

3–4 June 1769	19:15 3 June	22:25 3 June	01:35 4 June	Cook sent to Tahiti to observe the transit, Chappe to San José del Cabo, Baja California and Maximilian Hell to Vardø, Norway.	[7]

9 December 1874	01:49	04:07	06:26	Pietro Tacchini leads expedition to Muddapur, India. A French expedition goes to New Zealand's Campbell Island and a British expedition travels to Hawaii.	[8]

6 December 1882	13:57	17:06	20:15	John Philip Sousa composes a march, the "Transit of Venus", in honor of the transit.	[9]

8 June 2004	05:13	08:20	11:26	Various media networks globally broadcast live video of the Venus transit.	[10]

-	22:09 5 June	01:29 6 June	04:49 6 June	-	[11]

Future transits of Venus

Date(s) of transit	Time (UTC)	Notes	Transit path (HM Nautical Almanac Office)

Start	Mid	End

10–11 December 2117	23:58 10 December	02:48 11 December	05:38 11 December	Visible in entirety in eastern China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Australia. Partly visible on extreme U.S.	[12]

8 December 2125	13:15	16:01	18:48	Visible in entirety in South America and the eastern U.S. Partly visible in Western U.S., Europe, and Africa.	[13]

11 June 2247	08:42	11:33	14:25	Visible in entirety in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Partly visible in East Asia and Indonesia, and in North and South America.	[14]

9 June 2255	1:08	4:38	08:08	Visible in entirety in Russia, India, China, and western Australia. Partly visible in Africa, Europe, and the western U.S.	[15]

12–13 December 2360	22:32 12 December	1:44 13 December	04:56 13 December	Visible in entirety in Australia and most of Indonesia. Partly visible in Asia, Africa, and the western half of the Americas.	[16]

10 December 2368	12:29	14:45	17:01	Visible in entirety in South America, western Africa, and the U.S. East Coast.	[17]

12 June 2490	11:39	14:17	16:55	Visible in entirety through most of the Americas, western Africa, and Europe. Partly visible in eastern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.	[18]

10 June 2498	03:48	07:25	11:02	Visible in entirety through most of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and eastern Africa. Partly visible in eastern Americas, Indonesia, and Australia.	[19]

Sentence(s)

The next transits of Venus will take place on 10–11 December 2117, and 8 December 2125.

final_sentence: The next transits of Venus will take place on 10–11 December 2117, and 8 December 2125.