Your last chance to watch Venus cross the face
of the sun until 2117. This rare event, known as a transit of Venus, can be
viewed at from 3:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 5 at Crane Observatory, Stoffer
Science Hall, and Washburn University. The observatory is free and open to the
public and viewing is weather permitting.
Venus transits occur in pairs that are eight years apart, but these dual events
take place less than once per century. The last Venus transit viewing happened
in 2004.
The Zenas Crane Observatory opened in 1903 and houses an 1898 Warner &
Swasey refracting telescope.
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Mark Smith, (785) 670-2264
Amanda Hughes, university relations, (785) 670-2153
