{"id":429,"date":"2016-05-26T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/?page_id=429"},"modified":"2019-11-15T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:57:04","slug":"2016tom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Transit of Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/32879-sharpest-ever-mercury-transit-view-video.html\">2016 transit of Mercury from NASA and Big Bear (mention of jmp)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/transit-of-mercury-2016-tom-additional-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transit of Mercury 2016 Additional Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/xjubier.free.fr\/en\/site_pages\/transits\/xST_GoogleMap3.php?Trt=+20160509&amp;Acc=2&amp;Lat=35.13788&amp;Lng=-106.68412&amp;Zoom=4&amp;LC=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xavier&#8217;s Map Link<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000\/ECLIPSE_WEB\/TOM2016\/TOM2016.html\">Preliminary web page: Pasachoff\/Schneider collaboration<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.williams.edu\/news-releases\/5_5_2016_pasachoffmercury\/\">Pre-ToM press release<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bbso.njit.edu\">Big Bear Solar Observatory homepage<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/observing-news\/mercurys-slow-glide-across-the-sun\/\">Sky &amp; Telescope coverage by Kelly Beatty<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/astronomy-news\/observing-news\/may-9th-transit-of-mercury-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">Preliminary Coverage by Alan MacRobert<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipsewise.com\/oh\/tm2016.html\">Espenak&#8217;s 2016 Transit of Mercury Map<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/photos\/ta3upG17psWh7JK58\">Evan Zucker photos, scenes and closeups<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov\">NASA\/Solar Dynamics Observatory (Atmospheric Imaging Assembly) images<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbso.njit.edu\/scinews\/AIA_NST_Mercury_Transit_with_title.mp4\">Movie from Solar Dynamics Observatory plus Big Bear Solar Observatory (Plymate\/Pasachoff\/Schneider)<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrode.de\/merkurtransit\/5merkurt9be.htm\">Our measurement of the astronomical unit<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/transitomercury2016.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Earth-Sun distance observation from Enrique Torres\/Salom\u00f3n G\u00f3mez\/Antonio Ballesteros and Mario Koch, Schillergymnasium Weimar<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong><i>See<\/i> Jay M. Pasachoff, Bernd G\u00e4hrken, and Glenn Schneider, &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/03\/PhysicsTeacher-30Jan2017.pdf\">Using the 2016 Transit of Mercury to Find the Distance to the Sun<\/a><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Physics Teacher<\/i>, March 2016, vol. 55, pp. 138-141 (the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/03\/PhysicsTeacher-cover.pdf\"><u>cover<\/u><\/a> story); for a more detailed calculation of the distance to the Sun by Professor Udo Backhaus, see the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2017\/02\/PhysicsTeacher-Backhaus-addition.pdf\"><u>link<\/u><\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<div><strong>Observations of sodium in Mercury\u2019s exosphere: Mercury transit observations in 2006 and 2016.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/11\/2018-Schmidt-1.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-739\">Schmidt, C. A.; Leblanc, F.; Reardon, K.; Killen, R. M.; Gary, D. E.; Ahn, K., 2018, &#8220;Absorption Spectroscopy of Mercury&#8217;s Exosphere During the 2016 Solar Transit,&#8221; 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<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/11\/Icarus-2013-Potter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-740 noreferrer\">Potter, A. E.; Killen, R. M.; Reardon, Kevin P.; Bida, T. A., 2013, &#8220;Observation of neutral sodium above Mercury during the transit of November 8, 2006,&#8221; Icarus, Volume 226, Issue 1, p. 172-185.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_446\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/attachment\/bbso-colorized-grab\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-image-446 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO-colorized-grab-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"BBSO-colorized-grab\" width=\"594\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Dale Gary, Bin Chen, Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Claude Plymate, Vasyl Yurchyshyn. Big Bear Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Downloadable Movies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/bbso-b-w-mercury-fullToM-1.6m.mpg\">bbso-b-w-mercury-fullToM-1.6m<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/bbso-b-w-mercury-fullToM-1.6m.mpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Made with the 1.6-m solar telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory<br \/>\nUnfortunate glitch resulting from a cloud near third contact; this movie is a few frames longer than the color conversion<br \/>\ncredit: Big Bear Solar Observatory\/NJIT, with Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, Dale Gary, Bin Chen, and BBSO staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/TOM2016_SUNRISE_BIG_BEAR_LAKE.mov\">TOM2016_SUNRISE_BIG_BEAR_LAKE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/BBSO_BW_TOM2016_BACK_END_ALIGNED.mov\">BBSO_BW_TOM2016_BACK_END_ALIGNED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory\u2019s site has a <a href=\"http:\/\/xrt.cfa.harvard.edu\/xpow\/20160510.html\">direct link<\/a> to the XRT movie<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photos:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/2016-transit-of-mercury-photos-1\/\">Nikon D7000 snapshots at Big Bear<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/2016tom\/2016-transit-of-mercury-photos-2\/\">Nikon D7100 snapshots of Big Bear control-room screen and GS&amp;JMP<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_729\" style=\"width: 1434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-image-729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1424\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50.jpg 1424w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2019\/10\/IN_TRANSIT_50-500x275.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunspot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>For a composite image from the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-583 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-10 at 10.40.48 PM\" width=\"1280\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM.png 1280w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM-1024x760.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/pasachoff\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-10-at-10.40.48-PM-404x300.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 transit of Mercury from NASA and Big Bear (mention of jmp) Transit of Mercury 2016 Additional Resources Xavier&#8217;s Map Link Preliminary web page: Pasachoff\/Schneider collaboration Pre-ToM press release Big Bear Solar Observatory homepage Sky &amp; 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