Mercury Transit 2019: Live feed.

[roamer65]

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[kentuck]

1. What does it mean?

Mercury is so close to the Sun, it is rarely seen.

[roamer65]

2. Its passing between the Sun and Earth.

Only happens about 13 times every 100 years.

[roamer65]

4. Right now. It ends at 1:04 PM EST

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Mercury will complete its transit around 1:00 PM EST.

[Backseat Driver]

10. That's about as many times as I actually dust my monitor, now which dot is Mercury, hahaha!

What's really rare is a clear view of anything in the heavens from this town, so I'll take a glance streamed to the 'puter. Not exactly the "bouncing ball," to sing along, is it?

[roamer65]

12. It's pretty generic.

1/8th the size of Venus and double the distance during a transit.

[cbdo2007]

7. Yep, I've been watching all morning...

it's really even less interesting than I was expecting and I'm a huge space nerd, lol.

it is amazing though to see the scale of Mercury compared to the sun though. Makes me want to get up in the coming mornings/evenings to see Mercury to put it in context.

[roamer65]

8. Yeah I viewed the one in 2016...

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definitely not as impressive as a Venus transit.

The 2012 Venus transit was once in a lifetime for me unless they can keep me alive for 153 years...LOL.

After viewing the 2012 Venus transit, I definitely look at the planet differently now. I pay more attention to it as the morning or evening “star”.

The next Venus transit is December 2117.

[IADEMO2004]

9. Had a few peeks between clouds. Par for Iowa.

Same for 2017 Solar Eclipse.

[roamer65]

11. Your second shot is 8 April 2024.

Iowa isn’t far from totality path. It will be about 3.5 minutes of totality.

[IADEMO2004]

14. Bad odds April in Iowa. Mazatlan Mexico is my plan. Low humidity rain in April.

https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,mazatlan,Mexico

I'll be in my 70's by then wish me luck.

[kentuck]

13. For astrologers, it might have some significance, also

Since Mercury is the planet of communication.

It could be similar to the full eclipse from 2 or 3 years ago that cut a swath across the US, from Oregon thru SC.

Interpretation is open to the experts.

[Blue_Tires]

15. witchcraft is what it is...