

09 Feb 2010 15:17

Mercury Transit - May 7, 2003

Timing

For Meudon, France:

	Time (UT)	Polar angle
First contact	05:11:31.5	15.9
Second contact	05:15:57.1	15.1
Third contact	10:28:20.8	291.3
Fourth contact	10:32:45.2	290.6

Observations summary

H Alpha movies from Meudon's heliograph: ha030507.mpg (3.2 MB) | h+030507.mpg (2.4 MB)
Meudon's Solar Tower movie: ts_030507.mpg (6.0 MB) | ts_030507.avi (4.2 MB)
White light movie: tk_030507.mpg (5.3 MB) | tk1_030507.avi (3.1 MB) | tk2_030507.avi (21.1 MB)

Meudon Solar Tower
4'x4' green light

Meudon spectroheliograph
Full sun K1v

Meudon heliograph
Full sun white light

Lunette Fluorite
1/4 sun white light

LIVE IMAGES

Images from ground based observatories will be regularly updated (about 20 times per hour) if weather conditions permit.
SOHO is an ESA/NASA space mission located at Lagrange point L1, 1.5 million km away from the earth in the solar direction.

Live observations from Paris/Meudon Observatory

Weather on Meudon

Meudon heliograph
Full sun white light
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
13 Ko
640x527
Live image:
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Lunette Fluorite
1/4 sun white light
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
27 Ko
640x480
Live image:
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Meudon heliograph
Full sun H alpha core
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
21 Ko
560x527
Live image:
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Meudon heliograph
Full sun H alpha +0.5A
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
109 Ko
560x527
Live image:
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Meudon heliograph
Full sun H alpha -0.5A
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
20 Ko
560x527
Live image:
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Meudon Solar Tower
4'x4' green light
Aug 08, 2008 - 11:33
373 Ko
929x929
Live image:
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SOHO's observations

Realtime images from SOHO: here

Other ground based observations

Côte d'Azur Observatory: Live images
NSO/GONG: Live images from Australia, India and Canary Islands, Spain
Images from the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma
Canary Islands, Spain: SAROS - Live webcam

Links to some Mercury Transit web sites

http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/vt-2004/mt-2003/mt-intro.html - ESO (European Southern Observatory) web site about Venus and Mercury transit.
http://www.imcce.fr/ephem/passage/html_passage/MercureP2003.html - very detailed information from the IMCCE (in French).
http://grasse.obs-azur.fr/cerga/mignard/PASSAGE_03/ - Côte d'Azur Observatory web site on Mercury Transit, with live images (in French).
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/soc/mercury2003/ - SOHO Mercury transit.