The album contains photos of the observation camp for capturing the transit of Venus at IIA Bangalore campus in 2004. The transit of Venus in 2004 was a significant astronomical event in history because it was the first Venus transit after the invention of broadcast media. The photos of the transit of Venus, school students observing the event, setting up the observational ground, and presentations by astronomers of IIA can be seen in the album.

The fond contain compilation of Photographs, Newspaper Clipping, Pamphlets, Correspondence to Chinthamani Ragoonatha Chary and Transit of Venus.

This is the reprinted edition of the “Transit of Venus” original pamphlet published in 1874 by C.Ragoonath Chary. IIA library has redesigned the cover page and added the foreword by Prof.S.S.Hasan, Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and brought out the pamphlet before the world wide event of Transit of Venus on 6th June 2012 and published under IIA Archives Publication Series.

This item was about cover page of his treatise on Transit of Venus in Urdu.

This item was the photostate copy of the original pamphlet of "Transit of Venus" by C.Ragoonatha Chary published in English languages in 1874.

The CD contains the digitized book of 26 pages on transit of venus.