Mercury will cross in front of the sun in rare event Monday: Here’s how to watch

Astronomers and amateur stargazers are turning their sights to the sun on Monday, May 9th for a rare glimpse of Mercury in motion.

For the first time in 10 years, Mercury will be visible from Earth as it passes across the face of the sun. With the help of a telescope and solar filters, it will appear as a black dot during its 7.5-hour transit, which will occur between about 6:12 a.m. and 1:42 p.m. CT — according to NASA.

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, passes between Earth and the sun about 13 times a century. The last trek took place in 2006 and the next one will be on November 11, 2019, according to NASA.

Scientists will use the transit to study the ultra thin outermost region of Mercury’s atmosphere, the exosphere. The rest of us, though, can just sit back and marvel at the coolness of it all.

As tempting as it may be to stare at the sun during this event, it’s best to heed your science teacher’s advice: Don’t stare at the sun.

Why not try one of these methods instead?

Find a telescope or high-powered binoculars fitted with solar filters made of specially coated glass or Mylar.

Test your recall of elementary school science to make a pinhole projector.

NASA says it will live stream the transit , or use NASA app
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Bad Omen? Mercury to cross the sun

May , 2016 – Mercury is getting ready to transit the sun on May 9,2016

Astrological science (Jyotish Shashtra) regards Mercury as the planet related to business and finance. Any change in its position is said to definitely put an effect on the economy. It has been recorded that whenever there has been a transit of Mercury, the world has suffered an economical setback.

Some of the earlier transits that happened were on 9th May 1970, 10th November 1973, 13th November 1986, 6th November 1993, 15th November 1999, 7th May 2003 and 8th November 2006. Each of these transits had a bad impact on the economical position worldwide. It resulted into a crash in the stock market as well as in the financial and banking sector.

Mercury transit 2016 will prove detrimental for the International economy in general and stock market and banking sector in particular.

The central banks of all the countries of the world will face difficulties in making important decisions related to finance.

The transit will hit the economy badly and as a result, the sufferings of the common man will be on a rise.

Unemployment and corruption will only add to their woes.

The government will announce several schemes of development but sadly none of these schemes will be put into action. Shortage of funds and other organizational problems will be the main causes for the incompletion of the schemes. The industrial sector too will display a poor performance in production.

People with telescopes and solar filters will see Mercury as a tiny black dot moving across the sun’s face.

The transit starts Monday morning, according to clocks in North America. Meanwhile, if you could view Mercury on the dome of Earth’s sky right now (you can’t because it’s too near the sun’s glare).

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Mercury Retrograde! (What It Is & Why It Matters)
http://youtu.be/3AmGutS8ipI/ 08:51 Anti- Astrology (Manifesting, projecting)

"Astrological science"

There you see two words that should never go together.

Hhhaa.. I agree.
I think I read the Chinese Zodiac for myself, twice. That was fun. Now, I am done.

Astrological science . . . what an oxymoron.

My idiot hippie friends use astronomical events to justify treating each other poorly. "Sorry i'm being so awful everyone, mercury is in retrograde - its not my fault"

Geez, what a cop-out. And it is just an illusion that Mercury is moving backwards.

In 2016, Mercury will be retrograde during:

January 5 to 25
April 28 to May 22
August 30 to September 22
December 19 to 31

* Old Farmers Almanac *

NASA footage: Stunning images of rare Mercury transit

http://youtu.be/0eIZzVuWFdA/

Impressive images.

So today we can get a suntan without fear of getting burned!!!