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18 years 1 month ago #35571 by michael_murphy
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Hi All,

I pick this up from the Bad Astronomy website. It's an aminated GIF of the transit.

webfiles.colorado.edu/robbinss/www/misc_mercurytransit06.gif

Michael.

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18 years 1 month ago #35574 by voyager
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Wow ... Mercury is s LOT smaller than Venus!

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18 years 1 month ago #35583 by pmgisme
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Just shows you.
As far as the Sun is concerned ALL planets are little "dwarf-planets"!
Not just little Pluto!

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18 years 1 month ago #35584 by TrevorDurity
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Larry Alvarez also captured a nice movie of this.

Notice the flare occuring on the sunspot to the lower left?

mysite.verizon.net/armicheal/movies/partialdisk-optimized.gif

His post is here.

www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat...d/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1

Pretty cool!

Trev

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18 years 1 month ago #35602 by dave_lillis
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Very nice !!

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