Mercury Transit 2006

Ms. Linda Boyer, Program Director of North Carolina Estuarium, views the planet Mercury through a telescope provided by members of Carolina Skies Astronomy Club on the patio of the Estuarium on Wednesday, November 8, 2006. This relatively rare event will not occur again until May of 2016. Ms. Boyer, as did all other visitors, received a certificate from the club offering congratulations on viewing the Mercury Transit.

Mercury Transit 2006

On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, the planet Mercury made a rare transit across the face of the Sun. Members of Carolina Skies Astronomy Club and I set up telescopes at the North Carolina estuarium, Washington NC, to provide views of Mercury crossing the Sun to members of the public. Skies were partly to mostly cloudy during the event, but we did get enough breaks in the clouds to view the transit from time to time.