Jörgen Blom made this sketch of the transit from Stockholm. "I was amazed," says Blom, "that little Mercury seemed so large close to the sun's edge, but then remembered that Mercury of course is not on the sun's surface and therefore does not get foreshortened at the sun's edge as do the sunspots."

• drawings (1,2) from Jörgen Blom of Stockholm, Sweden;
• two transits (1,2) from Bartosz Laszczynski of Leszno, Poland;
• projected image from Andy Veh of Soldotna, Alaska;
• pictures (1,2) from Dennis Pang of Hong Kong;
• pictures and movies from students in Sonderborg, Denmark;
• picture from Val and Andrew White of Culcheth, UK;

"We had a great view," says Alan Fitzsimmons of Belfast, Northern Ireland, who captured this H-alpha image from the roof of the Physics Building at Queen's University: (continued below)

"It was marvelous!" says astronomer Bartek Okonek of Leszno, Poland. Using an 8" telescope, he took this picture at 12:17 CET:

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