<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class="">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.</span><div class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Here is a link to more information on the Mercury Transit that you may want to share as well.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.eclipsewise.com/oh/tm2016.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">http://www.eclipsewise.com/oh/tm2016.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Astronomy Picture of the Day link: <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160504.html" class="">http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160504.html</a></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""><br class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Clear skies,</o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Burness Ansell</o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class="">Publisher, IAAS monthly Astronomy Newsletter</o:p></div></body></html>