[Astronews] May 9 Mercury Transit

Sun May 8 23:30:20 EDT 2016

On May 9, from 11:12 UTC to 18:45 UTC, the planet Mercury will cross the face of the Sun. This celestial event  does not occur often, the last one was in 2006.

Here is a link to more information on the Mercury Transit that you may want to share as well.
http://www.eclipsewise.com/oh/tm2016.html <http://www.eclipsewise.com/oh/tm2016.html>

Astronomy Picture of the Day link: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160504.html

Clear skies,
Burness Ansell
Publisher, IAAS monthly Astronomy Newsletter
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ki0ar.com/pipermail/astronews_ki0ar.com/attachments/20160508/debcca97/attachment.htm>