Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:50:19 +0200 From: Richard West To: Michael Linden-Voernle , Bjoern Joergensen , Ian Elliott , Jean-Eudes Arlot , Petr Heinzel , Stanislav Stefl , Magda Stavinschi , VT-2004 National Node Belgium , VT-2004 National Node Austria , VT-2004 National Node Hungary , VT-2004 National Node Italy , VT-2004 National Node Luxembourg , VT-2004 National Node Poland , VT-2004 National Node Slovakia , VT-2004 National Node Slovenia , VT-2004 National Node Spain , VT-2004 National Node Greece , Vt-2004 National Node Bulgaria , Hubertus Woehl , VT-2004 National Node Norway , VT-2004 National Node Finland , VT-2004 National Node France , VT-2004 National Node Ile de la Reunion , VT-2004 National Node Ireland , VT-2004 National Node Malta , VT-2004 National Node The Netherlands , VT-2004 National Node Portugal , VT-2004 National Node UK , Richard West , Claus Madsen , Elisabeth Voelk , Ed Janssen , Fernand Wagner , "Rosa M. Ros" , Gero Rupprecht , Bernhard Mackowiak , Jean-Eudes Arlot , Henri Boffin , Petr Heinzel , Hans-Georg Schmidt , Stanislav Stefl , William Thuillot , Richard West , Claus Madsen , Esteban Illanes , Elisabeth Voelk , Herbert Zodet , Hans Hermann Heyer , Ed Janssen , Bernhard Mackowiak , Henri Boffin Subject: After the battle... Dear friends, a quick message to say that there is no doubt that the Day of the Transit has been an outstanding success. Thank you to everybody who helped to achieve this! We will be back with details and we will have to discuss how it all went, but just for now - we had about 34 million hits and sent about 1.1 Tb during the past 24 hours from the VT-2004 website, 10 times more than the Mercury transit last year. We had a lot of mails and there is no doubt that the VT-2004 programme has moved a lot - the public events, the many schools activitated, the media that reported with an unheard-of intensity, think of the 2100 observing groups registered, think of the AU calculation on-line that went without any noticable hitch - a first in the history of mankind(!), the many photographs and drawings, the very rich website that will be available for years to come, etc., etc. The Venus 2004 transit was a great opportunity which we did not miss....! Now we must take it easy and try to assemble our thoughts again. THANK YOU EVERYBODY!! Kind regards, Richard West (on behalf of the VT-2004 ISC) -- Richard West e-mail: rwest@eso.org ESO Education and Public Relations Dept. Tel +49-89-32006276 Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Fax +49-89-3202362 D-85748 Garching (Germany)