2016 Mercury Transit

I took advantage of some misty cloud cover to shoot the smallest planet in our solar system (Mercury) as it took a rare trip between the Earth and sun today in the 2016 Mercury Transit! 

2016 Mercury Transit
May 9th, 2016 - 12:19 pm
New Braunfels, Texas
Partly Cloudy, 74° F

Canon SX50 HS - f/8- ISO 80 - 1/2000s. exposure

Sunspot-complex AR 2524 on the left... Mercury on the right. 

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