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The Transit of Venus on 2012 June 5/6 The Transit of Mercury on 2016 May 9  Select from the "Location" menu and then "Draw Venus Transit 2012" from the "Write/Draw" menu.
At greatest transit
(01:30 UT) the
image point of the Sun and of Venus (subsolar
point) is located at 22.7° N (=declination of
the Sun and Venus) and 157.2° E (=360° -
Greenwich hour angle of the Sun and Venus) in
the Pacific Ocean: there the greatest
transit happens in the
zenith of the observer:
Location: E 157°12'00.0", N 22°42'00.0", 0m Sun's Position Angular UT1 Altitude Azimuth Angle Separation h m s ° ° ° ' Transit Begins 22:12:05.2 44.6 80.0 41.2 16.2 Ingress Interior Contact 22:29:41.2 48.6 81.0 38.6 15.3 Least Angular Distance 01:28:50.0 89.8 95.8 0.0 9.2 Egress Interior Contact 04:27:51.0 49.1 279.0 292.8 15.3 Transit Ends 04:45:25.3 45.1 279.9 290.2 16.2 Duration: 6h 33m 20.1s Venus is moving across the Sun's disk like this: 
Earth, Mercury, Venus und Mars on 2012 June 6
The geocentric end of the transit
is at 4:49 UT. The borderline separating the
sunlit and darkened hemispheres runs from
central Africa to Spain, to east of Ireland,
and Greenland, which is in agreement with the
prediction Proctor's book plate IX, published
in 1882.
  Richard A. Proctor: Transits of Venus (published in 1882), plate IX (2012 transit). The path of Venus as seen from the Earth  Esotheric and Astrology
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