Monday is Mercury transit

And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

On Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50:49 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

Let us pray that light pollution doesn't spoil your day. ;-)

Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50:49 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

Let us pray that light pollution doesn't spoil your day. ;-)


Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

On Monday, 9 May 2016 08:03:54 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:
Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50:49 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

Let us pray that light pollution doesn't spoil your day. ;-)


Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

More or less clear in Toronto, some heat-generated clouds.

In article ,
RichA wrote:
On Monday, 9 May 2016 08:03:54 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:
Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50:49 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

Let us pray that light pollution doesn't spoil your day. ;-)


Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

More or less clear in Toronto, some heat-generated clouds.

Clear skies in Oslo. Amazing how small Mercury is related to the Sun.

-- mrr

On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 3:31:04 PM UTC+1, Morten Reistad wrote:
In article ,
RichA wrote:
On Monday, 9 May 2016 08:03:54 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:
Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 6 May 2016 23:50:49 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
And the weather looks good in the U.S. NE.

Let us pray that light pollution doesn't spoil your day. ;-)


Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

More or less clear in Toronto, some heat-generated clouds.

Clear skies in Oslo. Amazing how small Mercury is related to the Sun.

-- mrr

You are among the first people to see the reason why Mercury moves in one direction against the background stars and then moves in the opposite direction as it swings out from behind the Sun to its widest point seen from a slower moving Earth before swinging back in front of the Sun -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdFrE7hWj0A

The retrograde motion of the outer planets is based solely on relative speeds between the faster motion of the Earth and the slower moving outer planets as they fall behind in view as the Earth overtakes them.

Like cars on a racetrack, the inner planets provide a spectacle every bit as delightful as the outer planets and it is so easy today to put Mercury overtaking our slower moving Earth in many different contexts. Engineering to get people into space is hard but this stuff is easy for those who exercise that judgment part of their minds that rarely if ever gets used.

I honor the original heliocentric astronomers who took the first steps and now I take another.

Overcast and rain in central Iowa.

The next opportunities are Nov. 11, 2019 and Nov. 13, 2032.


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On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:35:49 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
On Monday, 9 May 2016 08:03:54 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:

Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

More or less clear in Toronto, some heat-generated clouds.

I missed the ingress by maybe thirty seconds. Sun rose up into cloud bank. Saw the rest of the transit after sky cleared sufficiently.

Was really hoping Mercury would "clobber" that small prominence on western limb; it just missed it. It passed between that prominence (pillar) and a mound prominence nearby. Mercury seemed to be covering up some "low altitude" activity along the limb, but hard to be sure with bad seeing and 44x.

wrote:
On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:35:49 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
On Monday, 9 May 2016 08:03:54 UTC-4, Mike Collins wrote:

Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

More or less clear in Toronto, some heat-generated clouds.

I missed the ingress by maybe thirty seconds. Sun rose up into cloud
bank. Saw the rest of the transit after sky cleared sufficiently.

Was really hoping Mercury would "clobber" that small prominence on
western limb; it just missed it. It passed between that prominence
(pillar) and a mound prominence nearby. Mercury seemed to be covering up
some "low altitude" activity along the limb, but hard to be sure with bad seeing and 44x.


Thin cloud spoiled the last 45 minutes for me.

Mike Collins:
Not a cloud in the sky here in East Anglia. A perfect view of the start of
the transit.

While a friend of mine in Wokingham, Berks., got three fuzzy photos
through heavy haze.

The U.S. Mid-Atlantic was OK for the first few minutes
https://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval/. A short while later all of
my kit got rained on. No harm done.

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