Transit of Mercury in front of the Sun on 7 May 2003.

The final stages, taken with Takahashi FS-128 + Baader AstroSolar foil + ToUcam webcam.

Tiny Mercury in front of our Sun. A few distorted aircraft contrails drifted in front of the Sun during this picture taken with the FS-128 + Nikon Coolpix 995 and William Optics DCL-28 eyepiece.