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RE: Transit of Mercury

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ATransit of Mercury Webcast is being hosted by the NASA Digital Learning Network.
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Real-time images taken by the SOHO satellite of the 2006 Mercury transit.
8 November 2006 20:09:32 UTC - 9 November 2006 01:07:59 UTC

SOHO MDI Darkening Correction Filtergram
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SOHO MDI Continuum Filtergram
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-- Edited by Blobrana at 19:19, 2006-11-08

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On Wednesday, November 8, Mercury will transit, or pass across the face of the sun beginning at 9:12 am HST.

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The Exploratorium’s Live@ crew will be at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and, with the Kitt Peak staff, will Webcast the transit: a live five-hour telescope-only feed beginning at 11:00 am PST.
The transit will take place from 11:12 a.m. PST until 4:10 p.m. PST and will be visible from the Pacific, the Americas, eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, although some locations will not be able to see the entire transit.

Live feed from Kitt Peak

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An infrequent astronomical sight -- tiny Mercury inching across the surface of the sun -- takes place Wednesday afternoon in North America.
But you'll need the right kind of telescope to see it.

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Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, Nov 8th, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun. The transit begins at 2:12 pm EST (11:12 am PST) and lasts for almost five hours. Good views can be had from the Americas, Hawaii, Australia and all along the Pacific Rim.

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The planet Mercury has just finished up a very poor apparition in which it is has dawdled low in the western evening sky for the past few weeks. It has now disappeared into the bright evening twilight, but by later in November, in contrast to its recent poor evening performance, it will be readily visible as an increasingly bright starlike object low in the eastern sky around the break of dawn.
Mercury is also scheduled to make a most unusual — albeit brief — appearance on Wednesday.

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