TRANSIT OF MERCURY underway right now!

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About four hours left. You won't be able to see another one until 2032.

There's a little black spot on the sun today...

...And if I see the sun today, or this week, I'll be sure to check for it.

Stupid Scandinavian winter...

All overcast in my neighborhood this morning, so I'm very grateful for the Internet. (And clear skies in Norway, if not Sweden.)

LOL, there was also a transit of a bird just a moment ago. It was much faster than Mercury.

Hey, I just cleaned my screen and Mercury disappeared!

What the . . . . .

I bet a few people knew that Ezra was making a reference to a Police song.

The sun has set in Norway and the livestream above has switched over to California where the morning fog is clearing.

Bye, Mercury! Thanks for the show!

I hope you guys were just joking about "checking it out" when the clouds go away.

You cant look straight at the sun. And even if you could look right at the sun (by using a welder's mask?) Mercury would be a flyspeck 1/200 the size of the solar disk. Far too small, and too washed out by the Sun's light, to see without a telescope.

I wish I had been able to see it, but don't have the right equipment.

When I was in college we took binoculars out at night and watched the moon. During migration you can actually see geese flying across the moon. I never did figure out how they did that.

More great views.