Get our your Solar Filters and Solar Glasses! Mercury will transit the Sun today! And, since we have the day off for Veteran's Day, we can relax and celebrate our veterans while photographing the Sun! Let's head to the beach for the day to get an unobstructed view! (By the way, sunrise is at 6:28am)
Do note that the transit beginning time refers to first contact. Mercury first appears to touch the Sun's edge at 7:36 a.m. The entire planet will be visible
against the Sun about 1 - 2 minutes later. Mercury will appear as a small black dot moving along a path that nearly brings it across the Sun's center.
As Mercury is so small and will be 63 million miles from Earth on November
11th, this transit is only observable through a telescope or binoculars.
One MUST either use a protective filter covering the end of the optical
tube** or must project the Sun onto an opposing surface to allow for safe
viewing. THE DAILY ASTRONOMER: THE SOUTHWORTH PLANETARIUM
UPDATE: WE HAD A THOROUGHLY CLOUDY DAY THAT OBSCURED THE SUN.
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