Just Saw Mercury #mercurytransit #space

sun projected – sorry, but the dots of sunspots and Mercury too small to show up in the photo

Mercury is transiting the sun – right now! With our small telescope projecting onto a piece of white paper (never look directly at the sun!) I can see a sunspot group and a dot of shadow. Had to check twice over an hour to see that dot had moved relative to the sunspots – to be sure it’s Mercury. Cool.

Filed under: Neat Science News Tagged: citizen scientist, solar system, solat observation, sun, telescope, transit of Mercury