See it! Monday’s transit of Mercury

Greg Hogan in Kathleen, Georgia, caught Mercury not long after the transit began.

May 9, 2016, transit of Mercury from Vegastar Carpentier Photography in France.

May 9, 2016, Mercury transit from Bjorn Sorhoy in Norway. Thanks, Bjorn!

“Clouds finally broke!” said Patricia Graves.

Karl Diefenderfer in Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, caught this shot of the Mercury transit.

May 9, 2016, Mercury transit from Abhijit Juvekar in India. He wrote: “Although it is rare event to be seen from Earth, such transit events can be seen commonly any time if you have spaceship capable of going at exact place where you can see planet aligned with sun. Maybe in Future people can see transit events like these while their routine trips from one planet to another just the same as we take train to commute from home to office today.”

from EarthSky http://ift.tt/1XhnCyf