Note: This is a rare view of the transit seen through a violet Calcium-K filter. CaK filters reveal the bright magnetic froth around sunspots and between solar granules.

"The sight of Mercury against the full disk sun in Calcium K-line really makes one see the true size of the sun in persepective. It looks like the size of a pea compared to a big red kick ball."

Photo details: Coronado CaK 70mm scope and a Lumeneara CCD.

"I prefer to work in pastel for the subtle to vivid transition in color that seems unattainable in other mediums. I enjoy painting atmospheres, real and imagined."

Sketch details: Chalk pastel on charcoal.

Pretty hot day for mid-November: 84 degrees! The mountain shot is cool because you can see all of the tree branches a mile or more away, but Mercury had already fallen below the mountain.

Photo details: Nikon Coolpix 5000 with Scopetronix eyepiece attachment. Thousand Oaks filter on a Meade 6-inch Starfinder.

Photo details: Celestron cpc800 series XLT. I went prime focus on the edge shot and used a 3 x barlow on the close up.

This was an opportunistic seredipitous shot of the setting sun shining through some foreground trees with Mercury in full transit.

Photo details: Camera: Olympus C-3040Z @ 100 ASA Telescope: Borg 76ED on a Meade LXD-55 mount with a Baader film solar filter Afocal shot through a Meade 20mm Plossl Exposure time: 1/80 second

What a wonderful experience. I can't describe the excitement as I watched Mercury cross the limb of the Sun.

Photo details: Meade LPI and a Coronado PST Hydrogen Alpha Telescope.

We had atrocious weather for the transit with gale force winds, rain and only a few minutes of clear sky, - with clouds scudding over while I took the pics. But you don't get to choose your weather for transits, so these will have to do.

Photo details: SolarMax40 H-alpha filter, Stellarvue 80.

Even the Mercury is very tiny when compared to Venus, it’s still a great show.

Photo Details: Canon EOS 400D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L, Kenko 2X, Baader Filter