Venus Transit 2012

Honorary head of Department Dr. Eric Elst of the ROB observed the transit of Venus of June 6, 2012 in Tobolsk (Siberia). In 2005 he found there the place where Chappe d’Auteroche observed the transit of June 6, 1671. Dr. Elst travelled to the same place to observe, besides mosquitos and clouds, the transit of 2012. A few of his images can be found here.

More details on the discovery of the observatory of Chappe can be found at http://www.holbach-foundation.org/astro/tobolsk.htm