November 8th, 2006
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.
- Transit of Mercury, Imaged at Haleakala Observatory by Jay Pasachoff, Glenn Schneider, and Suranjit Tilakawardane ’07 – #1 #2 #3
- 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
- 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, in H alpha, second contact, in white light
- Sunrise outside the Mees Solar Observatory on Haleakala, about three hours before first contact, by Jay Pasachoff – #1 #2
- 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, #2
- 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
May 7th, 2003
- 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
- A ground-based image by Philippe Jacquot of Annecy, France
- 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 - Rome Observatory
- European Southern Observatory press release
- SOHO image series
- NSO Press Release: GONG Observes the Transit of Mercury
