Mercury Transit of the Sun's disk May 9, 2016

[CelNav57]

Mercury will transit the Sun's disk on May 9 at GMT 11:12:00 and will exit 18:42:00

According to the USNO;

"The entire transit will be visible in eastern North America, northern South America, the Arctic, Greenland, extreme northwestern Africa, western Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean".

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Mercury's Transit of the Sun's disk, May 9


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[P.Rutherford]

I watched part of the transit this morning using my III-B. Mercury was a very tiny dot on the face of the Sun.

It gives one an idea of scale between the Sun and tiny Mercury!