Mercury transit - May 07 - 2003
Our equipment is designed mainly for Deep Sky Widefield applications however - here are our efforts.
During the transit the sky was rather clear except for high altitude stratus.
Our images of the Mercury transit were captured by Morten Moeller, Farshad Shirmohammadi,
Mia Busch Agergaard and Rasmus Flytkjaer.
These student images are copyfree for ordinary press media (and astronomical webpages) on the conditions given at the end of this page.
Mercury is visible as the dark spot at the upper part of the image.
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A few selected images are shown below. Mercury starts at upper left corner - and then moves to the right - until it leaves the sun in the last image.
Movie showing the transit - only 350 kByte but requires freeware DIVX to be installed.
- taken at 061235 UT.
- taken at 073919 UT
- taken at 085610 UT - Heavy Clouds...
- taken at 101748 UT - The End..
View all 38 fullsize images - a total of 8 megabytes.
ESO pages on this transit - with webcam links
Visit our gallery
Send email to Astronomy Students and teachers at Amtsgymnasiet in Sonderborg
Permission for reproduction of these Mercury transit images.. These images are copyfree - provided this source "Sonderborg Observatory" is mentioned, informed and linked. .
However - based on bad experience : no image reproduction is permitted within End-of-the-World-predictions, New Age stuff, astrology or similar.