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[jamescanvin]

Underway - but cloudy here in Sydney.

Hoping it breaks up a bit before the end.

EDIT: I saw it! Just for a few seconds through half a gap in the cloud.

Some links to live feeds at spaceweather

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/galle...nov06_page3.htm

Japan's Hinode spacecraft used its Solar Optical Telescope to capture a 0.2-arcsecond resolution movie of Mercury transiting the sun.

http://solar-b.nao.ac.jp/news_e/20061109_e.shtml
http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/

[JRehling]

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/galle...nov06_page3.htm

Japan's Hinode spacecraft used its Solar Optical Telescope to capture a 0.2-arcsecond resolution movie of Mercury transiting the sun.

It's too bad that side of Mercury isn't lit! That would show surface detail really nicely. "Pixels" of about 45 km. No use looking for topography around the limb, though.