APOD-Mercury Transit
This is a picture of the transit of mercury taken by astronomer Phil Jones. The composited image was taken through a telescope equiped with an H-alpha filter that narrowly transmits only the red light from hydrogen atoms. Pictures taken this way capture a detailed picture of the solar chromosphere, the region above the Suns normally visible surface. Mercury is seen as a little black dot on the left center of this picture.
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