{"id":6951,"date":"2016-05-09T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/may-9-2016-transit-of-mercury\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:53:49","slug":"may-9-2016-transit-of-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/may-9-2016-transit-of-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9, 2016 Transit of Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My efforts to photograph the Mercurial transit of the sun today were less than optimum; the diminutive disk of the small planet did not resolve well with my Canon SL1, 300mm lens and a $10 solar filter. Moreover, looking at the sun through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowsymphony.com\/eclipse-glasses\/\">Eclipse Shades<\/a> was a bust; you couldn&#8217;t resolve the planet at all.<\/p>\n<p>But, all was not lost &#8211; thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">Solar Dynamics Observatory&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/assets\/img\/latest\/latest_1024_HMIIC.jpg\">images<\/a> on the internet, I captured several screen shots to combine into the animation below. The sequence starts when Mercury is almost at <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-transit-1.jpg' title='mid-transit'>mid-transit<\/a> (I did not want to get up at 4 AM) and continues to the point where the shadow is barely touching <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-transit-a.jpg' title='on the east limb'>the east limb<\/a> of the sun. I find it very interesting that the sunspots at and above the equator move to indicate the solar rotation over the few hours it took for the transit.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mtrans.php\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript>You must enable Javascript to view this feature.<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My efforts to photograph the Mercurial transit of the sun today were less than optimum; the diminutive disk of the small planet did not resolve well&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-astronomy","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}