Something you don’t often see. . .

[jseal]

Mercury will transit the Sun Wednesday evening here in the States, or Thursday morning in Australia.

For those who are interested, more info is available here (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/transit06.html).

[LixyChick]

I know the hippie down the road will be disappointed. It's raining something awful here today and he'll not be able to use his HUGE telescope to view the transit.

Keep Looking Up!

[gekkogecko]

Looking up isn't always a good idea, Lixy. For instance, when a lage flock of birds is flying overhead...

[jseal]

Gentlefolk,

For those who, like LixyChick's hippie friend and I, are not blessed with decent weather, there is always streaming video (http://www.exploratorium.edu/transit/).