Transit of Mercury
Taken by John Stetson on May 9, 2016 @
L.C. Bates Natural History Museum in Hinckley, Maine
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Date Taken: 2016:05:09 11:39:24
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... nice to see an active region and Mercury. Galileo demonstrated that sunspots were, in fact, on the sun; sunspots foreshorten when near the sun's limb, and transiting objects (Venus and Mercury) maintain their size and shape as they pass in front of our sun.
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