Transit of Mercury Scitech Tweaked

Mercury transiting the Sun, seen on the projection table of the solar telescope at the SciTech museum in Aurora, Illinois.

 

Mercury is a tiny dot visible at about "eight o'clock" in the photo. It is upstaged by a large sunspot in the "nine o'clock" position.

 

SciTech is a great hands-on science museum downtown, next to the Aurora Public Library, at 18 W. Benton Street. Phone 630-859-3434, Web site www.scitech.museum/home.htm

 

Cellphone camera photo taken 8 November 2004 at 13:43 Central Standard Time (19:43 UT).

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