TRANSIT OF MERCURY 2016 through my telescope 1080p

Today, May 9th, Mercury is passing directly between Earth and the sun, producing a rare transit of Mercury's inky-black disk across the solar surface.

A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury comes between the Sun and the Earth, and Mercury is seen as a small black dot moving across the face of the Sun.

Transits of Mercury with respect to Earth are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per century, in part because Mercury is closer to the Sun and orbits it more rapidly.

Transits of Mercury occur in May or November. The last four transits occurred in 1999, 2003, 2006, and May 9, 2016. The next will occur on November 11, 2019 and then on November 13, 2032.

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[ReubenMRU]

Nice vid too :-) Which telescope are you using? And from where were you shooting? Southern hemisphere too? I was thinking you must be from the northern hemisphere given how it's upside down, but then again, telescopes invert the image unless you have an inverter...

[MarT_-emvx]

You could fit millions of mercury in that, sun

[thepowerfullie]

whats funny is Mercury is roughlt the size of the moon a bit bigger. The moon when it eclipses the sun covers the entire sun. Mercury is 48 million miles from the sun while the moon is on average 93.2 million miles from the sun. Basically Mercury is half the distance (actually about 55%) between sun and moon. Why does the planet Mercury not appear toughly half the size of our moon when in transiover the Sun? Help me with this

[MiltonTPOficial]

Eu só vi uma bolinha na frente do nosso sol pequeno e perto, pq jamais daria pra ver algo na frente do hyper sol gigante de fogo nuclear que vcs crêem existir....