Photos of Mercury’s Transit
I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t able to watch the Mercury transit directly. Fortunately, our hardworking friends in the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today Forum were outside with telescopes and cameras rolling. There are some still photographs, some mosaics of the transit, and some movies.
Click here to visit the Astrophotography section.
You do need to be a member of the forum to be able to see the images that are attached to threads. Others link from the forum to their own websites, so you don’t need to be a member to see those. Membership to the forum is totally free, you can sign up here.
Fraser
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