A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury comes between the Sun and the Earth, and Mercury is seen as a small black dot moving across the face of the Sun.
Mercury - the closest, the smallest and the ellipsed orbit planet in our solar system has just transited across the Sun on May 9th 2016 between 16:40 to 19:20 (IST) from Jamnagar Gujarat, India. This was a well planned single shot image taken from 400 meter distance away from foreground using ultra-telephoto zoom lens. People are enjoying watching transit with music. Earth sized sunspot AR2542 is visible in center right disc of the Sun.
Every seven years or so, Mercury can be seen from Earth-passing across the face of Sun. This happens because Mercury’s orbit is inclined by 7 degrees to the plane of Earth’s orbit.
Mercury has tiny size (4,860 km) compare to Sun (13.9 lakh km) projecting in this featured image appears as a small dot.
The next transit of Mercury will occur on 11th Nov 2019 visible from America, Europe and Africa.
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