TRACE coverage of the
Mercury Transit
November 15, 1999

The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) Instrument ran Fe IX (171 Å), UV Continuum (1600 Å), and white light (5000 Å) images during the Mercury transit of the solar disk on 15-Nov-1999. What follows are a couple of movies from the 21:00UT hourly file. The 171 movie has some fuzzy stuff in it that's due to TRACE passing through the radiation belts; the 1600 and WL movies don't suffer from this so much due to shorter exposure times. Also be sure to visit the Yohkoh/SXT Science Nugget to see the predictions used to plan this campaign.

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Other Mercury sites:

• A nice collage of the transit in all observed wavelengths
• More movies, better colors, and quicktime movies
• The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Mercury Page
• The view from the SoHO observatory
• A ground-based observer's view: Mees Solar Observatory
• Another ground-based observer's view: Amateur Astronomy at work
• The Astronomy Picture of the day