2012 transit of Venus

[3] The entire transit was visible from the western Pacific Ocean, northwesternmost North America, northeastern Asia, Japan, the Philippines, eastern Australia, New Zealand, and high Arctic locations including northernmost Scandinavia, and Greenland.

Midway through the transit one of the NASA streams had nearly 2 million total views and was getting roughly 90,000 viewers at any given moment.

In Los Angeles, crowds jammed Mount Hollywood where the Griffith Observatory set up telescopes for the public to view the transit.

[5] The transit was also observed and historically photographed by NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station.

[6] NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory could not see the transit as it was not in between the Earth and the Sun at the time of the event, but high-definition images of the event were obtained by Solar Dynamics Observatory, from 36,000 km (22,000 mi) above the Earth.

Image of the transit taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Venus is in the upper right quadrant
Path across the Sun, with contact times and other data
Visibility map
Children in Dili observing the transit of Venus