Mercury transit on May 9, 2016

Mercury orbit on May 9, 2016

Visibility on Earth

The transit of Mercury on May 9, 2016 the retired Mercury between 13:11 GMT and 20:41 in front of the sun over.

course

The first contact was made at 1:11 p.m. CEST. Mercury passed the center of the Sun down from the center left. At 4:56 p.m. the planet then reached the closest distance to the center of the sun. The end of the transit was at 8:41 pm. In Northern Europe, Mercury left shortly before sunset. The exit was not visible in southern Europe because the sun set there beforehand.

Recordings

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  Admission in Stade at the beginning of the transit

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  Photographed from the southern hemisphere (detail)

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  Photo from Argentina

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  Sun in white light , 3:52 p.m. CEST, seen from southern Germany

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  From Hanau at 18:14 CEST

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  From Dortmund at 18:41 CEST

The following transits of Mercury

The next Mercury transit took place on November 11, 2019, the following one will take place on November 13, 2032.

Web links

Commons : 2016 Transit of Mercury  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Livestream of the Peterberg observatory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Astromarco's Blog ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 21, 2015. 
2. ↑ Astrokramkiste , entry at 1:34 p.m. CET , exit at 7:04 p.m. Table , accessed on October 21, 2015
3. ↑ Mercury transit on May 9, 2016. In: sternwarte-peterberg.de. Association of Amateur Astronomers of the Saarland e. V., accessed April 20, 2016 .