Astronomy
On This Day
9 Dec 1874 - Transit of Venus observed
On 9 December 1874 at 11:30am Henry Chamberlain Russell witnessed the first Transit of Venus at the Sydney Observatory in 105 years
Sydney Observatory guide
A large number of the Observatory’s records, along with records relating to an earlier observatory based in Parramatta, are held in our Collection and provide an intriguing resource for the history of science in Australia.