![Greg Hogan in Kathleen, Georgia, caught Mercury not long after the transit began.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Greg-Hogan-e1462812613429.jpg)
![May 9, 2016, transit of Mercury from Vegastar Carpentier Photography in France.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Vegastar-Carpentier-Photogrpahy-e1462812589876.jpg)
![Transit of Mercury from San Juan, Puerto Rico - May 9, 2016 - by Fernando Roquel Torres.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-San-Juan-Puerto-Rico-Fernando-Roquel-Torres-e1462817805296.jpg)
@BadAstronomer @SantaBarbaraAU @earthskyscience @exploreplanets
Mercury transit with airplane transit as well. pic.twitter.com/D81fxwlT79— Tactical Sky Guy (@tacticalskyguy) May 9, 2016
![View larger. | Mercury Transit in deep infrared (830 nm) with solar surface stacked and deconvoluted, by Eliot Herman in Tucson, Arizona. Eliot wrote,](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-deep-IR-eliot-herman-tucson-AZ-5-9-2016-e1462876313466.jpg)
![View larger. | Eliot Herman in Tucson caught the famous black drop effect for the May 9 Mercury transit, shown here in contrast to the same effect seen on Venus. Read more about this image on Eliot's Fickr page.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Eliot-Herman-black-drop-effect-e1462877128382.jpg)
![View larger. | Mercury transit with a Hydrogen-Alpha telescope, by Efrain Morales / Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe. Thanks also to Eddie Irizarry for submitting!](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-Efrain-Morales-Sociedad-de-Astronomia-del-Caribe-Hydrogen-Alpha-e1462877839414.jpg)
![May 9, 2016, Mercury transit from Bjorn Sorhoy in Norway. Thanks, Bjorn!](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Bjorn-Sorhoy-Norway-e1462812445802.jpg)
![](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Patricia-Graves-e1462812553117.jpg)
![Shreenivasan Manievannan caught the May 9 Mercury transit from San Francisco, through a thick marine fog rolling in from the ocean.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-San-Francisco-Shreenivasan-Manievannan-2-e1462878331585.jpg)
Steady hands #TransitofMercury #mercurytransit ???????????? pic.twitter.com/mBWqIWw43y
— Sam Cornwell (@Samcornwell) May 9, 2016
![Karl Diefenderfer in Quakerstown, Pennsylvania, caught this shot of the Mercury transit.](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-Karl-Diefenderfer-Quakertown-PA-e1462812604285.jpg)
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Watch Mercury pass in front of sun @AstronomyCenter pic.twitter.com/YUqU80AeD9— almayas83 (@83Almayas) May 9, 2016
![May 9, 2016, Mercury transit from Abhijit Juvekar in India. He wrote:](https://earthsky.org/upl/2016/05/mercury-transit-5-9-2016-AbhijitJuvekar-e1462812290747.jpg)
Mercury transit today. Altair GPCAM Starwave 102 F11 refractor, @daystar_filters Quark @BBCStargazing @PeoplesAstro pic.twitter.com/bdVt5COVdn
— Altair Astro (@altair_astro) May 9, 2016
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