Paul Schlyter Jun 13, 2004
>As Bill aid, Guide currently lacks that capability. Thus it remains to
> Hi,
>
> > So why not let your Guide search for Mercury and Venus transits
> > between the years 10000 and 14000 AD, and then manually inspect these
> > lists to see if any of them happen concurrently?
>
> first, thanks to Paul for a thorough elaboration on this subject. Very
> informative indeed.
>
> And even though I could do as you suggest, ie. run through the Mercury and Venus
> transits separately and check manually, I'd rather have my computer do that :)
> That's what computers are for, after all.
>
> So my question remains, is Guide capable of doing searches for multi-object
> conjunctions? (My suspicion is that it is not.)
> As for what a Mercury/Venus transit would look like, another guy from NorwayA nice simulation -- and not just a double transit but also Venus occulting
> has made a faked simulation:
>
> http://home.online.no/~tundlie/venus-merkur-passasje.swf
> Best regards,--
>
> Arild :)
>
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