Sun' s edge distorted by Mercury
Taken by Antonio Iovane on May 15, 2016 @
Italy
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This magnified detail of the transit of Mercury is taken from the sequence posted by Uğur İkizler from Turkey. It is the frame of 14:15:23. It is clearly visible that the edge of the sun is distorted, and I was wondering whether this is a case of gravitational lensing.
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