... TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope . ... The Venus Transit - 08.11.2004 . ... The recent transit could not be seen from ESOтАЩs Chile observatories as the Sun was below the horizon. But, undaunted, a team of Italian astronomers led by Paolo Molaro of the Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica at the University of Trieste used the opportunity to perform an unusual and challenging experiment, looking at the sunlight reflected off the Moon to see how it changed during the transit. ...