Mercury like a bat out of hell, see the SOHO movie too.

SOHO caught the Mercury transit last week, which I found in these two
images, in the first one Mercury's in the lower center

http://comsketch.com/sohowithmercury1.gif

and in this one it's on the lower right

http://comsketch.com/sohowithmercury2.gif

Below is my amateur shot of Mercury transiting the sun, the sunspot on
the left in the above shots is same sunspot on the right of my shot
(inverse optics of a 60 mm refractor using projection method, 12.5 mm
eyepiece, the cell of which partially melted, and a 2x barlow)

http://comsketch.com/mercurytransit2006.jpg

You might also be interested in seeing Mercury fly like a bat out of
hell after its transit near the end of this SOHO satellite movie

http://www.comsketch.com/sohofastobject.mpg

At first I thought this was a comet or asteroid because it was moving
so fast, but Starry Night Pro identified it as Mercury. By the end of
the movie from left to right the brightest objects moving relative to
the stars are, Jupiter, Venus (occulted Sun in center) zooming Mercury
and Mars.

Regards, Jason H.

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