Direct broadcast of the transit of Mercury

Image of the Mercury transit obtain by Swedish Solar Telescope in 2016
Image of the Mercury transit obtain by Swedish Solar Telescope in 2016
Advertised on

Next Monday, November 11th, it will be possible to follow the transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun from the Canary Island Observatories, from 12:36 p.m. to 18:04,  on the channel YouTube IAC vídeos, of the Institute de Astrofísica de Canarias.

A transit is defined as the passage of one astronomical object in front of another, so that the nearer occults a part of the surface of the farther. Only the inner planets (Marcury and Venus) can transit the Sun, from our viewpoint on Earth. In any century there are 13 transits of Mercury and the following transit will not occur until the year 2032.

Mercury has quite an elliptical orbit, and completes one revolution around the Sun in around 3 terrestrial months. It is an extreme and strange planet where the Sun can rise twice in the same day, and where the temperatura on its surface ranges from 450 Celsius, on the side facing the Sun, to -170 Celsius on the side away from the Sun.

The Canary Observatories invite you to follow the broadcast from teh GREGOR Solar Telescope (OT, Teide Observatory, Tenerife), the largest solar telescope in Europe operated by the KIS (Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics, Germany) and from the Swedish Solar Telescope (ORM) Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma) operated by the ISF (Institute for Solar Physics, Sweden).

News type
General
Scope
Observatorios de Canarias

It may interest you

  • Observation of 2024 NP2 obtained with the TST telescope
    Press release
    The Solar System Group at the IAC discovers a new asteroid near the Earth
    The discovery of 2024 NP2 took place during the night of July 4th in images taken during the commissioning of the TST, a new telescope recently installed at the Teide Observatory. On July 4th the first regular observations were made in the commissioning of the Transient Survey Telescope (TST), an astronomical installation produced by a public-private collaboration between the IAC and the Canary company Light Bridges , at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife). The TST is a robotic telescope with a wide field. With a 1 metre telescope and a camera using an sCMOS detector at its prime focus, it can
    Advertised on
  • General
    Teacher training at IACTEC: proyect Planet Change
    On February 21st and 22nd 2024, IACTEC organized a hybrid presential/telecom course on dissemination of Space Sciences with online tools, dedicated to secondary school teachers. Themes covered include wildfire observation from space using the Earth Observation Browser from Copernicus Project (a specific course on EO Browser had already been held in 2023), solar panels seen from space using Geographical Information Systems such as Google Earth and Google Maps, Near Earth Objets, and light pollution. A total of 15 teachers attended the course. This course was developed in the frame of Planet
    Advertised on
  • Poster for the Open Days at the Teide 2024 Observatory. Credit: Inés Bonet (IAC)
    Press release
    The Teide Observatory will hold its Open Days on 22nd and 23rd June
    FULLY BOOKED Thank you very much for your interest in the Open Days 2024. All available places have been fully booked with the applications received. Those who have successfully registered will receive an email confirming their attendance or non-attendance as soon as possible. We regret that we are unable to attend all applications, but we encourage you to stay tuned for our next calls and events - we look forward to your participation in future activities! We would like to remind you that other visits are organised throughout the year and can be requested via our Visits page . Coinciding
    Advertised on