Mercury Transit 2006 by jared99
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Description
Mercury passed directly between the Earth and the Sun today, an event known as a "transit". This can happen a couple of times every 13 years or so with mercury, and a couple of times every 243 years for Venus. This shot was taken through a 3" refractor with a Nikon D100 (ISO200, 1/250 sec) using a special filter for viewing the sun.
Mercury is the tiny dot in the lower left quadrant of the sun. The blotch on the left is sunspot NOAA-826. A couple of smaller sunspots are visible on the right side of the image.
Comments (15)
shayhurs
Nice image; well done!
FutureFantasyDesign
Excellant Photo! What filter was used to get it? I almost tried to use a welders lens in front of the old celestron...thought better of mti! LOL! 5*****'s for getting up early! HuggerZ! Ariana
astro66
Nice shot, well done! I missed out on this by being on the wrong side of the planet :( But I watched the movie of it on the SOHO website.
Valerie-Ducom
Oh yes, very nice and beautiful pictures!!! Excellent!!! Good day ;)
meselfr
most excellent....
TomDart
This piques some old interests of mine from years ago. Well done and thanks!
busi2ness
I missed out on this one, great capture showing how tiny it is compared to the sun.
kimariehere
WOW it happens every 13 years and you captured it totally amazing that you even knew about it!! what is out there we dont even think about cause we are so stuck in our little world and head lol ... fantastic stuff!
AstronomyMan
Good one Jared. I had my scope and cameras ready, but as luck would have it, it rained here all damned day. I missed it. Will have to make sure I am still around in 2016 for the next one. Why the hell do I pay all those taxes and it still rains all day?
moochagoo
Impressive !
Buffalo1
I heard about this on the news. It shows how huge our star is, and how small Mercury is in comparison to the sun, and even more stunning - the sun spot!
tizjezzme
Wow ... excellent work. Would love to get into shooting the sky .. sounds expensive though.
1hawks1
Very Creative my friend..Excellent work.
chimera46
Great shot, I am always amazed at how huge the sun is, here a sunspot dwarfs Mercury itself!
Georges_H_Hoens
When you think that "super blue giant" can be 2000 bigger than our sun. Univers is so fantastic to know, I'm sad for people who just look at the ground. Thanks for sharing!