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SOHO and the 2006 Mercury transit8 November 2006 20:09:32 UTC - 9 November 2006 01:07:59 UTC |
The Mercury transit will be seen by SOHO. The data on the transit as it is seen from SOHO are summarized below:
| The angular radius of the Sun as seen from SOHO | 0.27137º |
| The lowest SOHO/Sun/Mercury angle | 0.1153º |
| Ingress (just touching outside) | 8 Nov 2006 at 20:09:32 UTC |
| Ingress (just touching inside) | 8 Nov 2006 at 20:11:23 UTC |
| Greatest transit (closest approach of the centers) | 8 Nov 2006 at 22:38:43 UTC |
| Separation at greatest transit | 413.978 arc-sec |
| Egress (just touching inside) | 9 Nov 2006 at 01:06:08 UTC |
| Egress (just touching outside) | 9 Nov 2006 at 01:07:59 UTC |
| Transit total duration | 4 h 58 min 27 s |
The data provided by the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) in 5 min increments is on the web in HTML, text and Excel formats. For summary information on the view from Earth, see here.
| EIT | Observes the transit in all four wavelengths between 8 Nov 2006 18:45 UT and 9 Nov 2006 02:20 UT |
| LASCO | Observes Mercury through its C2 and C3 fields |
| MDI | High-rate observations throughout the transit |
Further information is available in the SOHO's Science Planning Working Group minutes.
