Transit of Venus, June 8, 2004

CONTACT INFORMATION

On this site you will probably find the information you want about the transit. Please check links to further information and descriptions of transits and eclipses.

  • The transit of Venus is visible form all of Norway and all of Europe. For visibility in other areas of the world, please check this link
  • You can find information about local events on this link

CONTACT PERSON:

  • Private persons: Please do not contact us in the period May 31 - June 10, 2004 unless it is absolutely necessary. Before contacting us we kindly ask you ot read the information on www.astronomy.no. If you make a call, please make it very short and make sure you have paper and a pencil available.
  • Media: Contact Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard (see info below)
    If the phone is busy, please leave a message - we will make contact as soon as possible.
  • Other requests/questions: Send an e-mail to venus2004@astro.uio.no about webcasts, local events etc.

The office at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (phone +47 22 85 65 01) may answer simple questions about the transit, but only questions you will find the answer to by reading this pages.

The Norwegian Astronomical Association (NAS) will be the main organizer for activities in Norway during the transit and will therefore hadrly be able to answer requests in the period from May 25 - June 12 (phone 22 85 75 21, mail nas-veven@astro.uio.no). Also before and after this busy period NAS will be busy, in particular in April, May and June.

Please observe that it may take quite a while to get answers on mail requests in the period around the transit of Venus. We will give priority to urgent and important mails. Other requests will be processed after the transit.

The information staff will probably be enlarged during the period just before the transit.

PRESS CONTACT:

Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard
astronomer

Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA)
PO.Box 1029 Blindern
NO-0315 Oslo

Phone: +47 22 85 75 22 (ITA, University of Oslo)
+47 992 77 172 (mobile)
Email: knutjo@astro.uio.no

Created Dec. 28, 03, last update Dec. 28, 03 by Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard
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