The end-of-2024 Europlanet Webinar had two parts.

00:03:03 The first hour was introduced by Paolo Tanga from the Observatory of the Côte d’Azur in Nice, France, talking about the origin of the Venus Twilight Experiment.

This was followed by a viewing of the Venus Twilight Experiment documentary (https://youtu.be/G4lqwhm6SLg?si=Yy915qTqA8AytD8c) and the music piece by composer William Zeitler The Last Transit of Venus for Glass Armonica (https://youtu.be/4LP8QFR9Qvc?si=yAjEMloMIZUA0ZLu)

00:17:02 The second hour featured a talk by Pedro Machado and Alexandre Branco about some brand new results on Transit of Venus 2012 data analysis and how it can help in the study of exoplanet atmospheres (https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15121431).

00:37:21 This was followed by a talk by composer and musician William Zeitler, about the Transit of Venus in 1761 in relation to Benjamin Franklin and Franklin’s invention of the Glass Armonica in that same year!

Links related to these presentations:

• Tanga 2016: The Venus Twilight Experiment – what we learned from the last transit of Venus. https://www.europlanet.org/venus-twilight-experiment-tanga/
• Branco et al. 2024: Transmission Spectroscopy Along the Transit of Venus: A Proxy for Exoplanets Atmospheric Characterization. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15121431
• William's website https://williamzeitler.com/