Recent Transit of Mercury Pages:
Most Recent Transit of Mercury:
May 9, 2016 Transit
Glenn Schneider (Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona)
in collaboration with Jay Pasachoff (Williams College)
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Xavier Jubier’s Interactive Map
Java Applet
Chris Kennedy’s YouTube and Stellarium Simulation
Open University Outreach Discussion
Wikipedia on Transits of Mercury
Pasachoff’s 2015 Abstracts
Nightwise
Solving the Mystery of the Black Drop Effect
November 8, 2006 Transit
The transit of Mercury expedition was supported in part by the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society with student participation supported by the Rob Spring fund at Williams College.
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- Imaged at Haleakala Observatory by Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, and Suranjit Tilakawardane in 2007
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- Imaged at Haleakala Observatory by Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, and Suranjit Tilakawardane in 2007
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- Imaged at Haleakala Observatory by Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, and Suranjit Tilakawardane in 2007
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- Transit of Mercury, by Bryce Babcock and Kevin Reardon, Imaged at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the Sacramento Peak Observatory, National Solar Observatory / NSF – in a CH molecular line
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- Transit of Mercury, by Kevin Reardon (Arcetri Observatory), Imaged with the IBIS instrument mounted at the Dunn Solar Telescope of the Sacramento Peak Observatory, National Solar Observatory / NSF – in CaII
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- in H alpha
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- second contact
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- in white light
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- Sunrise outside the Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala, about three hours before first contact, by Jay Pasachoff
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- Sunrise outside the Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala, about three hours before first contact, by Jay Pasachoff
Press Release
TRACE images (Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, JAXA, NASA)
HINODE images (Lockheed MArtin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, JAXA, NASA) – #1
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University of Hawaii’s solar site, for a white-light movie
National Solar Observatory’s GONG project
Spaceweather.com gallery
Fred Bruenjes’s H-alpha images, including Mercury silhouetted against a prominence
Phil Jones’s Astronomy Picture of the Day H-alpha full-disk image
Kepler foreshadowing / SOHO image series
Chuck Bueter’s transitofvenus.org
National Solar Observatory ToM page
May 7, 2003, Transit
Swedish Solar Telescope, La Palma, courtesy of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Composite image from the Udaipur, India, GONG site, carefully co-registered so that the overall Sun stayed steady; the solar rotation blurred out the sunspots
2003 Mercury transit page at TRACE
2003 Mercury transit white-light video by TRACE (13 MB)
2003 Mercury transit page at the New Swedish Solar Telescope, La Palma
2003 Mercury transit page at SOHO
2003 Mercury transit page at GONG
2003 Mercury transit TRACE combination image
TRACE movie in an extreme-ultraviolet wavelength
TRACE movie in white light
A ground-based image by Philippe Jacquot of Annecy, France
movie from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)
ground-based composite white-light image by D. Dierick
Rome Observatory
individual images
European Southern Observatory press release
November 15, 1999, Transit
Big Bear Solar Observatory Transit of Mercury Movie
TRACE coverage of 1999 Mercury Transit
Astronomy Picture of the Day