Because of its fortuitous location, New Zealand hosted overseas expeditions, various local government-funded observing teams and a plethora of dedicated amateur astronomers intent on observing the 1874 and 1882 transits of Venus. Even though inclement weather foiled some observers in 1874 and in 1882 the ingress phase occurred before local sunrise, New Zealand was able to play an important role in the quest to determine one of astronomy’s fundamental yardsticks, the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (now known as the ‘Astronomical Unit’, or AU).
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The 1874 Transit of Venus: New Zealand's First Foray into International Astronomy
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Wayne Orchiston;
(2016)
Refining the Astronomical Unit: Queenstown and the 1874 Transit of Venus
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Wayne Orchiston;
(2016)
Exploring the History of New Zealand Astronomy: Trials, Tribulations, Telescopes and Transits
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(2013)
From the Transits of Venus to the Birth of Experimental Psychology
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Kapoor, R. C.;
(2014)
Indian Astronomy and the Transits of Venus. 2: The 1874 Event
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Loskutova, Marina;
(2014)
Early Research on Insect Pests in the Russian Empire: Bureaucracy, Academic Community and Local Knowledge in the 1830s–1840s
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Wayne Orchiston;
Clifford J. Cunningham;
(2015)
The Clash Between William Herschel and the Great German ‘Amateur’ Astronomer Johann Schroeter
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Hochadel, Oliver;
(2011)
Watching Exotic Animals Next Door: “Scientific” Observations at the Zoo (ca. 1870--1910)
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Wayne Orchiston;
John Drummond;
Gary Kronk;
(2020)
Observations of the Great September Comet of 1882 (C/1882 R1) from New Zealand
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Wayne Orchiston;
(2016)
The Historic Astronomical Observatories in the Wellington Botanic Garden: A Brief Introduction
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Wayne Orchiston;
(2016)
The ‘Cook’ Gregorian Telescope in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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John C. Barentine;
(2021)
Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus: Investigating a 400-Year-Old Phenomenon
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Schaefer, Bradley E.;
(2001)
The Transit of Venus and the Notorious Black Drop Effect
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Luís Campos Ribeiro;
Henrique Leitão;
(2018)
Astrology With New Eyes: The Telescope in Astrological Prognostication
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S. Mohammad Mozaffari;
(2019)
The Orbital Elements of Venus in Medieval Islamic Astronomy: Interaction Between Traditions and the Accuracy of Observations
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Pedersen, Kurt Møller;
Kragh, Helge;
(2008)
The Phantom Moon of Venus, 1645--1768
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Wayne Orchiston;
(2017)
Cook, Green, Maskelyne and the 1769 transit of Venus: the legacy of the Tahitian observations
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Kapoor, R. C.;
(2013)
Indian Astronomy and the Transits of Venus. 1: The Early Observations
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Vetter, Jeremy;
(2011)
Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production
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Vetter, Jeremy;
(2011)
Introduction
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