Indeed the photo has attracted great interest. As he prepared for first contact he noticed it on his PC screen first and then started taking shots! The photo was taken at 15:05:38 UT give or take a couple of seconds. For the record.
Fred Bruenjes, who took this "rapidly becoming famous" photo of Mercury against the backdrop of a solar prominence has stated that he took 52,000 images of the transit, that's about 23 gigabytes apparently.
Now I was always told that good photographers take as many shots as possible and they are bound to have one award winning photo. But 52,000.....................
Brian
"There is a theory that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Another theory states that this has already happened."
  