Links

Other sites dealing with this transit:

Xavier M. Jubier's Transit of Mercury 2019 page with an excellent Local Circumstances Calculator
Fred Espanak's Transit of Mercury 2019 page
The Transit of Mercury Site of In-the-Sky.org with hints for observations and visualizations of the visibility
The transit page of astronomie.info
merkurtransit.de
2019 Transit of Mercury (J. M. Pasachoff, Williams College, CA)
The Solar Dynamics Observatory watches the transit and takes movies of it.
Lifestream of the transit from Santiago de Chile (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)
Medición didáctica de la distancia Tierra-Sol mediante el registro conjunto del tránsito de Mercurio (and the corresponding blog), a southamerican project, that also offers the possibility to participate (after registration).

Images:

Images of the sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- The actual image (HMI Intensitygram - colored, 2048*2048px)
- With the Data browser it is possible to download images of arbitrary dates and times, taken every 15 min.
Images of the sun taken by the Kanzelhöhe Observatory of the University of Graz, Austria

Videos:

Der kleine Astroview 3: Merkur vor der Sonne (in German) (or on YouTube)
Mercurio in Sole Visu, Progretto Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro, J. Pasachoff (in English)
Tránsito de Mercurio 11/11/2019, Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago de Chile (in Spanish)

Other useful sites:

HORIZON's Web-Interface
Time.is is one of many sites showing the actual universal time UTC.
The Network Time Protokol offers the possibility to synchronize several computers with high precision.

Literature;

W. Tobin, Transits of Venus and Mercury as Muses, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 16(3),224-249 (2013)

Editor:

Udo Backhaus

last update: last update: 2020-03-19