Transit of Mercury summary page of our Big Bear Solar Observatory observations joint with Glenn Schneider

Big Bear Solar Observatory Goode Solar Telescope image from Jay Pasachoff and Glenn Schneider with Claude Plymate, John Varsik, and others from the staff of the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Big Bear Solar Observatory.

Contour displays of the black drop from the Goode Solar Telescope from Glenn Schneider (From The Big Bear Observatory)

Contour displays of the black drop from the Goode Solar Telescope from Glenn Schneider.

TOM2019 Questar Egress Sequence as Time-Lapse “Movie” FULL LENGTH

Quick-look movie using the TiO speckle reconstructed data for the Mercury Transit (From The Big Bear Observatory)

Images by Glenn Schneider with a Questar and a Williams College Questar filter in collaboration with Jay Pasachoff and Bill Sheehan. Quick first reduction. At Big Bear Solar Observatory in a dome alongside the dome of its 1.6-m Goode Solar Telescope. The Questar telescope is 3.5 inch (0.089 meters) diameter aperture. The effective focal length is 1422 mm (f/16). The Questar full-aperture solar filter has optical density 4.8. The camera used was a Nikon D800. Images were taken at 1/1600 s at ISO 500. The full disk image was taken at C3 minus 30 seconds.
The egress limb-crossing image sequence is at a 15 second cadence.

Evan Zucker Photographs

: Sony a7iii with Sony 70-300mm lens at 300mm.

: Nikon P900 at 268mm (equivalent to 1500mm with full frame camera)

: Sony RX100iii at 220mm (equivalent to 600mm with full frame camera)

At the Big Bear Solar Observatory, California, with the 1.6 m Goode Solar Telescope

: Full video on Youtube link

Thanks to Claude Plymate, Teresa Bippert-Plymate, John Varsik, Nicolas Gorceix.
Our team: Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Evan Zucker, Bill Sheehan, Muzhou Lu‘13

Views of the Mercury transit from the GOES-16 Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) in its 195Å and 304 Å passbands, between 11 and 19 UT on 2019 November 11. (Daniel B. Seaton/Univ. of Colorado/NOAA)

SUVI Movies (11/11/2019) (Credit: Daniel B. Seaton)

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO): transit observations

https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/mercury-transits-the-sun/

https://youtu.be/AhWMOkrzKzs

A quick-look movie using the TiO speckle reconstructed data for the 2019 Mercury transit. (Big Bear Solar Observatory)

Movie From Rev. Ronald Royer

Black drop: From the Big Bear Solar Observatory –

The camera used for our Broad Band Imager uses a PCO-2000 high speed CCD normally imaging through a TiO filter (10A FWHM centered at 7057A).

Raw frame #415 that shows the moment of 3rd contact. The time stamp on the frame is 18:02:55.

Black-drop image by Alfredo Vidal <[email protected]> Solar Activity Picture of the Day for November 14th, 2019. “The world wide home of active solar imagers”

Celestron C11 Edge HD F:10 telescope working at primary focus with a Baader ND-5.0 Solar Screen Filter Mylar sheet + ZWO ASI290MM monochrome camera with Continuum Baader green filter from the terrace of his home in Hospitalet del Llobregat (Barcelona/Spain).
The resulting video record was made in black and white. Subsequently and with the use of the public domain program: VirtualDubMod uses various VDF digital filters (plugins) provided by the program to give: false color, improve contrast, noise removal, etc., in order to obtain a single frame in which you can interpret the “black drop.”
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Projected Transit of Mercury observed by Christine and Evan Lockwood in Quogue, NY, on November 11, 2019.

Transit of Mercury 2019 Powerpoint-

Pasachoff, Jay M., Udo Backhaus, Alfred Knülle-Wenzel, and Joe J. Zender, 2019, “Measuring the Scale of the Solar System, through Transits of Mercury,“ session ODA1 at Division of Planetary Sciences/European Planetary Science Congress in Geneva, September.

Project to determine the astronomical unit (au) headed by Udo Backhaus (Germany) through coordination of observations from several widely-separated sites: http://www.transit-of-mercury2019.de

Past Transits of Venus and Mercury available at https://sites.williams.edu/transitofvenus/