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Transit of Mercury
The transit of Mercury happens when Mercury crosses between the Earth and the Sun during the daytime, allowing us to view the planet as a small dot going across the sun over the course of several hours.
Mercury at inferior solar conjunction
A transit of Mercury occurs when Mercury passes directly between the Sun and Earth, appearing as a small black dot moving across the Sun’s disk, and very close to the orbital plane of Earth.
These alignments are not very frequent, occurring about 13 times a century.
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Transit of Mercury – the smallest and fastest planet in the Solar System.
We looked through some telescopes & binoculars as a black dot at Mercury moving across the face of the Sun that we won’t see it again until 2019 (Monday 11th November 2019).
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Transit of Mercury (Wednesday 7th May 2003)
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Occasionally, Mercury can seen crossing the Sun as known as Transit of Mercury, the last time it happened on 15th November 1999 and the next event of Transit of Mercury on 8th November 2006.
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Recorded the time of witness Transit of Mercury – it begun at 07:30am till the end of event was 11:32am.
Caught a plane passing the front of the Sun through the telescope with a special solar filter.
The black disc as Mercury reached the edge of the inside sun. It became to look like a mice bit the biscuit. We were delighted to see the Transit of Mercury and understand to see how compare the size between the Sun and the black disc, Mercury.
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Organised by MKDAS, on the morning of Wednesday 7th May, the planet Mercury transited (passed in front of) the Sun. For 5 hours and 19 minutes from 06:12am till 11:33am (BST), observed with a suitably equipped telescoped (AstroSolar) saw the black disk of Mercury creeped across the face of the Sun – it looked like a perfect round jet black sunspots.)
At 11:28am (BST), the leading edge of Mercury’s disk had made contact with the edge of the Sun, then over 4 minutes period the disk of Mercury creeped off the edge of the Sun. (See above the right noted.)
The next one will be on 8th November 2006 but we are not in the right place at the right time, so we have to wait until May 2016 to observe our next Transit of Mercury from the UK observers.
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Solar (Sun features) Astrophotography by Derek Rowley
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