See it! Monday’s transit of Mercury

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View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2ND7Aki | Karl Diefenderfer wrote: “The clouds were threatening but held off until I was able to snap a few photos.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X7GAwv | Steve Scanlon https://ift.tt/2pV9804 in Long Branch, New Jersey wrote: “Crossed fingers for clear skies prevailed.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/34UATEQ | Joel Weatherly https://ift.tt/2QbbS48 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada wrote: “I enjoyed watching and photographing this morning’s Transit of Mercury. While I missed the first bit in Edmonton, the skies were very clear (some atmospheric turbulence though). Here’s my shot at capturing the event, I finally got to give my Calcium K-line filter a go.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36W0b7g | Tom Palmer of Carrboro, North Carolina wrote: “This was taken at 1:02:54 pm ET, just a few seconds after 3rd contact, when the disk of Mercury had just started exiting the face of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/36STeUl | Mimi Ditchie https://ift.tt/2KegLWl at Avila Beach, California worte: “This is an image of Mercury transiting the sun. Mercury is the small black dot in the mid-upper right of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X8z5Ff | Chirag Upreti in New York, New York wrote: “We had brief clear skies over NYC during the start of the Mercury transit, later high clouds rolled in making Mercury hard to spot through the haze. I was amazed at the scale of this speedy little planet compared to our star, it gave a wonderful perspective.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2NDXz6a | Richard Lakhan https://ift.tt/2X6pa31 in Trinidad wrote: “Transit of Mercury – view from Trinidad.” Thanks, Richard!

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/32CDTE7 | Ken Gallagher https://ift.tt/2Qbfp24 at Lake Havasu City, Arizona wrote: “Was hoping for some sun spots.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36VDUq7 | Tom Wildoner at the The Dark Side Observatory https://ift.tt/2Dc1IYf in Weatherly, Pennsylvania wrote: “Here is a view of the Mercury transit across the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2NEha6t | Steve Bellavia of Southold, New York captured this image.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X8uza8 | Olivér Nagy in Budapest wrote: “I was at my workplace, but I take one day off. I have pack out at the roof of our office, to follow up the Mercury transit. From Budapest, it was visible from start till the center point. I used 2 telescopes,one for visual, where I could show my colleges the transit, and one for photography. Unfortunately, awe received some clouds, and I was only able to take good images from the beginning, and some during sunset including this one, where the Mercury is almost at the center of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/21397| Ken Chan in Palo Alto, California wrote: “It had been foggy in the morning for the past few days. Fortunately, it was clear this morning, and I was able to see Mercury transit the sun.” Thanks, Ken!

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2O4JaPx | Jean Marie André Delaporte https://ift.tt/29yahkM of Normandy, France wrote: “Here you go, the splendid transit of Mercury in front of the sun. I’m so happy.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36YoJfK | Eric Smith https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1453217299&__tn__=%2Cd*F*F-R&eid=ARBO_j0czHRO4aBsXsWmEh6YY2qIrRgexzm7UceZ5d9ZaiEl2mGE9SMtwZAKdU3jTou8Oiv_sxW1ZZEH&tn-str=*F at Paso Robles, California wrote: “A fitting tribute to Veterans Day was today’s transit of the sun by the planet Mercury! Enjoy, Fellow Star Voyagers!”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36WMFA6 | Eliot Herman https://ift.tt/2O4ErNW wrote: “In Tucson, Arizona, seeing was mostly fair to poor. At sunrise there were thick clouds that disappeared for a nice window after mid-transit when this photo was captured and then more haze and light clouds for toward the end of the transit. This photo was at about best seeing conditions.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2O7gntN | Annie Lewis https://www.facebook.com/Annie.Lewis2212?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDXsp9iKNOgz64Y4qEX4cI_vwbegxzH1PGCAG24yY3AWqs4-22fjL_87eVeeoh3R2nPFUrt7AyAHZZx&hc_ref=ARSFv5sVwSw6qdXr_q92vsYe3EO7KS56e8TeQcMNWYKmQsjEbngVuFC3fwtyCteE6sk&fref=nf wrote: “Awful cloudy day here in Madrid, Spain, but I’ve just about managed to get Mercury entering the sun’s disk.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/33FMJlW | Abdulmajeed Alshatti https://ift.tt/2O71KGD in Kuwait wrote: “Mercury in a rare pass across the Sun today. This is photo shows the position of Mercury after 1 hour and 10 minutes after the starting the transition in Kuwait, at sunset.”

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You’ll find even more images at EarthSky Community Photos. A huge thank you to all who submitted! Submit your Earth and sky photos here.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2ND7Aki | Karl Diefenderfer wrote: “The clouds were threatening but held off until I was able to snap a few photos.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X7GAwv | Steve Scanlon https://ift.tt/2pV9804 in Long Branch, New Jersey wrote: “Crossed fingers for clear skies prevailed.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/34UATEQ | Joel Weatherly https://ift.tt/2QbbS48 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada wrote: “I enjoyed watching and photographing this morning’s Transit of Mercury. While I missed the first bit in Edmonton, the skies were very clear (some atmospheric turbulence though). Here’s my shot at capturing the event, I finally got to give my Calcium K-line filter a go.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36W0b7g | Tom Palmer of Carrboro, North Carolina wrote: “This was taken at 1:02:54 pm ET, just a few seconds after 3rd contact, when the disk of Mercury had just started exiting the face of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/36STeUl | Mimi Ditchie https://ift.tt/2KegLWl at Avila Beach, California worte: “This is an image of Mercury transiting the sun. Mercury is the small black dot in the mid-upper right of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X8z5Ff | Chirag Upreti in New York, New York wrote: “We had brief clear skies over NYC during the start of the Mercury transit, later high clouds rolled in making Mercury hard to spot through the haze. I was amazed at the scale of this speedy little planet compared to our star, it gave a wonderful perspective.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2NDXz6a | Richard Lakhan https://ift.tt/2X6pa31 in Trinidad wrote: “Transit of Mercury – view from Trinidad.” Thanks, Richard!

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/32CDTE7 | Ken Gallagher https://ift.tt/2Qbfp24 at Lake Havasu City, Arizona wrote: “Was hoping for some sun spots.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36VDUq7 | Tom Wildoner at the The Dark Side Observatory https://ift.tt/2Dc1IYf in Weatherly, Pennsylvania wrote: “Here is a view of the Mercury transit across the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2NEha6t | Steve Bellavia of Southold, New York captured this image.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2X8uza8 | Olivér Nagy in Budapest wrote: “I was at my workplace, but I take one day off. I have pack out at the roof of our office, to follow up the Mercury transit. From Budapest, it was visible from start till the center point. I used 2 telescopes,one for visual, where I could show my colleges the transit, and one for photography. Unfortunately, awe received some clouds, and I was only able to take good images from the beginning, and some during sunset including this one, where the Mercury is almost at the center of the sun.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/21397| Ken Chan in Palo Alto, California wrote: “It had been foggy in the morning for the past few days. Fortunately, it was clear this morning, and I was able to see Mercury transit the sun.” Thanks, Ken!

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2O4JaPx | Jean Marie André Delaporte https://ift.tt/29yahkM of Normandy, France wrote: “Here you go, the splendid transit of Mercury in front of the sun. I’m so happy.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36YoJfK | Eric Smith https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1453217299&__tn__=%2Cd*F*F-R&eid=ARBO_j0czHRO4aBsXsWmEh6YY2qIrRgexzm7UceZ5d9ZaiEl2mGE9SMtwZAKdU3jTou8Oiv_sxW1ZZEH&tn-str=*F at Paso Robles, California wrote: “A fitting tribute to Veterans Day was today’s transit of the sun by the planet Mercury! Enjoy, Fellow Star Voyagers!”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/36WMFA6 | Eliot Herman https://ift.tt/2O4ErNW wrote: “In Tucson, Arizona, seeing was mostly fair to poor. At sunrise there were thick clouds that disappeared for a nice window after mid-transit when this photo was captured and then more haze and light clouds for toward the end of the transit. This photo was at about best seeing conditions.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos. https://ift.tt/2O7gntN | Annie Lewis https://www.facebook.com/Annie.Lewis2212?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDXsp9iKNOgz64Y4qEX4cI_vwbegxzH1PGCAG24yY3AWqs4-22fjL_87eVeeoh3R2nPFUrt7AyAHZZx&hc_ref=ARSFv5sVwSw6qdXr_q92vsYe3EO7KS56e8TeQcMNWYKmQsjEbngVuFC3fwtyCteE6sk&fref=nf wrote: “Awful cloudy day here in Madrid, Spain, but I’ve just about managed to get Mercury entering the sun’s disk.”

View at EarthSky Community Photos.https://ift.tt/33FMJlW | Abdulmajeed Alshatti https://ift.tt/2O71KGD in Kuwait wrote: “Mercury in a rare pass across the Sun today. This is photo shows the position of Mercury after 1 hour and 10 minutes after the starting the transition in Kuwait, at sunset.”

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