Mercury Transit from Nov 8, 2006

Hello Everyone. I shot this video with a specialized telescope that filters out a special wavelenght of light called Calcium K-line. I put together thousands of frames into this few second movie. The black dot moving in the lower left of the sun's disk is the planet Mercury. Also if you look closely the surface of the Sun is alive with movement and the sunspot has a small explosion on next to it. Keep in mind that Mercury is about 1/3 the size of Earth. Small but next to the Sun its even more tiny.

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[ourobouros2k2]

was this shot with the Coronado PST CaK?

[armicheal]

@ourobouros2k2

It was shot with a Coronado 70mm calcium telescope.

[maha77]

amazing!

[armicheal]

Thanks. The video is a Calcium K-line view of the Sun that I used a special filter to shoot. The K-line in the visual spectrum is actually purple.

[earthvisitor3]

.........and our star the sun is very very very small compared to other giant stars..

[RJL738]

It doesn't look like it but the Sun is more than 1,330,000 times bigger than the Earth.

[v8fepasa]

Can you imagine how is Mercury's sky?

[jebes909090]

Thats so cool.

[A1PanzerFreak]

Wow. Great video. Imagine the sun if it were really purple! The Sun looks really neat purple, and that transit is something. But may I ask, what are those two spots moving in the upper part of the video?

[darkling9109]

Another transit.