Mercury transit on May 7, 2003
eso_eso0312b May 2nd, 2003
Credit: ESO
The view through a large telescope may have offered scenes like this one, when the black disc of Mercury (above, left) passed near a group of sunspots on the solar surface. This picture is a montage that was created for a press release before the Mercury Transit that took place on May 7, 2003.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0312b/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso0312b
- Subject Category
- A.1.3.1
- Subject Name
- Sun, Venus
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2003-05-02T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0312b/
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- Observation
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- N/A
- Facility
- Instrument
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- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
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- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 600.0, 497.0
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- Scale
- Rotation
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- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso0312b
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso0312b.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-22T14:23:17.131298
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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