• 2016 transit of Mercury from NASA and Big Bear (mention of jmp)

• Transit of Mercury 2016 Additional Resources

• Xavier’s Map Link

• Preliminary web page: Pasachoff/Schneider collaboration

• Pre-ToM press release

• Big Bear Solar Observatory homepage

• Sky & Telescope coverage by Kelly Beatty

• Preliminary Coverage by Alan MacRobert

• Espenak’s 2016 Transit of Mercury Map

• Evan Zucker photos, scenes and closeups

• NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) images

• Movie from Solar Dynamics Observatory plus Big Bear Solar Observatory (Plymate/Pasachoff/Schneider)

• Our measurement of the astronomical unit

• Earth-Sun distance observation from Enrique Torres/Salomón Gómez/Antonio Ballesteros and Mario Koch, Schillergymnasium Weimar

• See Jay M. Pasachoff, Bernd Gährken, and Glenn Schneider, “Using the 2016 Transit of Mercury to Find the Distance to the Sun,” The Physics Teacher, March 2016, vol. 55, pp. 138-141 (the cover story); for a more detailed calculation of the distance to the Sun by Professor Udo Backhaus, see the link.

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  Observations of sodium in Mercury’s exosphere: Mercury transit observations in 2006 and 2016.
  Schmidt, C. A.; Leblanc, F.; Reardon, K.; Killen, R. M.; Gary, D. E.; Ahn, K., 2018, “Absorption Spectroscopy of Mercury’s Exosphere During the 2016 Solar Transit,” in Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet, Proceedings of the conference held 1-3 May, 2018 in Columbia, Maryland. LPI Contribution No. 2047, 2018, id.6022

  Potter, A. E.; Killen, R. M.; Reardon, Kevin P.; Bida, T. A., 2013, “Observation of neutral sodium above Mercury during the transit of November 8, 2006,” Icarus, Volume 226, Issue 1, p. 172-185.

Image Credit: Dale Gary, Bin Chen, Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Claude Plymate, Vasyl Yurchyshyn. Big Bear Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Downloadable Movies:

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Made with the 1.6-m solar telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory
Unfortunate glitch resulting from a cloud near third contact; this movie is a few frames longer than the color conversion
credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory/NJIT, with Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Dale Gary, Bin Chen, and BBSO staff

TOM2016_SUNRISE_BIG_BEAR_LAKE

BBSO_BW_TOM2016_BACK_END_ALIGNED

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s site has a direct link to the XRT movie

Photos:
Nikon D7000 snapshots at Big Bear
Nikon D7100 snapshots of Big Bear control-room screen and GS&JMP

Sunspot

For a composite image from the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope: