View of 2006 Mercury Transit

ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory watched Mercury move across the face of the sun during the most recent Mercury transit on Nov. 9, 2006, as shown in this movie. SOHO will also view the transit on May 9, 2016.

Credit: NASA

[kvikk]

be sure to wear protective goggles or broken CD-disks when viewing events like this in person ^.^ Our solar Sun is so great~~ Jupiter's moon mayhaps have been retrograde; and we often joke about when Mercury's retrograde; but this event was so rare; lucky were the ones to view it in full!!~
♧♥☆★↑↓

[SandroSdaCosta]

tips to make the passage of planets at home:
-Connect a lamp in low light;
-transpasse a dark, small object before him;
-Capture in b & w
-be the NASA

[americanastronomy]

How is that fake? It's sped up to compress 7.5 hours into a few seconds but not fake. I observed it in my back yard with my telescope and camera with my own eye. Invest in one and in 10-13 years when it happens again, go watch.