Sites of observation open for people without any instrument for observing the transit.

• Meudon observatory, place Janssen in Meudon (Hauts de Seine): solar tower, siderostat, telescopes.
  For groups, please contact Mr Hellier at 01 45 07 77 43.

• Paris observatory, entrance on 98 boulevard Arago, Paris 14ème: siderostat, coelostat, telescopes.
  For groups, please contact Mrs Lautier at 01 40 51 23 01

• Juvisy observatory, organized by the Société Astronomique de France
  (cf. the site of Juvisy City Hall for the conditions).

• Grenoble observatory, , at the university, amphi Louis Weil, parvis de la bibliothèque universitaire des sciences. Stop tram B : terminus.
  Free entrance, without reservation. For school groups, please call : 04 76 63 55 11.

• Marseille-Provence astronomical observatory (3 observing sites on June 8); for any information : please, click here.

• Lyons observatory, Saint-Genis-Laval: open on June 8
  (see the web site here).

• The observatory of Besançon, in collaboration with the Association Astronomique of Franche-Comté, organized a rendez-vous for the transit of Venus , on June 8 from 9h to 13h30 in the garden of the observatory.

• The AFA (Association Française d'Astronomie) proposed a list of sites of observation in France near associations of amateurs astronomers.

• The Palais de la Découverte proposed public observations on the bank of the river Seine, in Paris, near the Palais.

• The Uranoscope of Ile-de-France proposed public observations inn Seine-et-Marne.