On Wednesday, November 8, observers in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific will be able to see the planet Mercury cross the face of the sun. Such “transits of Mercury” are fairly rare, so if you’ve got access to welding glasses or a telescope with a sun filter, it’s worth a look. (I’ll be using my NASA glasses left over from the transit of Venus in June 2004.) Your science teachers may be able to help. <\/p>\n
You can find more details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n More<\/b> (added November 8–better late than never):<\/p>\n There are lots of links (including Webcasts) and information at NASA’s Sun-Earth Day site: The Exploratorium in San Francisco offers a Webcast<\/a> and information about how to build a viewer<\/a> for the transit.<\/p>\n –Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday, November 8, observers in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific will be able to see the planet Mercury cross the face of the sun. Such “transits of Mercury” are fairly rare, so if you’ve got access to welding glasses or a telescope with a sun filter, it’s worth a look. (I’ll be using my … Continue reading “Transit of Mercury Coming Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/sunearthday.nasa.gov\/2007\/events\/mercurytransit.php<\/p>\n