In message , Aidan
Karley writes
A rather bandwidth-hungry image/movie of the recent Mercury transit
(pre-first contact to post-second contact) is available at

http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/fpp/F...1024_1024_Merc
ury_20061108_1913_D/ , in three formats, a Javascript program, an
animated GIF or an MPEG-1 movie.

I had to fix the wrap -
http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/fpp/F...024_1024_Mercu
ry_20061108_1913_D - thanks for posting it.
I was interested to see that people are still doing cutting-edge science
during transits
http://space.newscientist.com/articl...houette-to-rev
eal-its-tenuous-atmosphere.html