How About that Mercury Transit, huh? That was some transit.

As far as transits across the sun, this was a good one. (It's a video link to NASA, who has several color variations at this main link -- just click "Hotshot" at the top.) As far as transits in general, it ranks right up there with other famous transits, like the ones astronomers would go on about, if left to their own devises and if they'd caught you at a cocktail party celebrating the announcement of a new galaxy or something, which is what I figure they have cocktail parties for.

Apparently, there have been 94 transits over the last seven centuries. And 2/3 of those come in November.

But all I know is Brother-in-Law-to-beat-all Kurt (sorry Denning, it's jsut that you won't read this, so I have to cover my bases) sent me the link, and it's fascinating. Quite impressive, at least to me. If you want a picture too big to paste here, check this out, it's a figure of the sun, with lines and angles and numbers and all that stuff scientists love.