APOD: 2019 November 14 - Mercury and the Quiet Sun

Good Early afternoon here on the East Coast Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! I must say I am again disappointed in the Photo that "Astronomy" posted today to their APOD... It appears to be on frame from Mercury's Transit of the Sun on 11/11/19... I posted a short video on that as an adjunct to your APOD the next day...and at 21/22 seconds in to the Photo/VIdeo Shoot, lasting until 26 seconds or so the moon was "calm" and it was apparent that the Video/Photo cameras were using an assortment of special filters of which one apparently made the sun seem bland in appearance to show better Mercury's overall transit... I have inserted the video here for you followers to check again...Let me know what you think on this, Bill... Thanks, Kerry
https://youtu.be/0yNzSwlnQ2Q





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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, November 14, 2019 entitled "Mercury and the Quiet Sun."
Image: Mercury and the Quiet Sun - Image Credit & Copyright - John Chumack
"Explanation: On November 11, 2019 the Sun was mostly quiet, experiencing a minimum in its 11 year cycle of activity. In fact, the only spot visible was actually planet Mercury, making a leisurely 5 1/2 hour transit in front of the calm solar disk. About 1/200th the apparent diameter of the Sun, the silhouette of the solar system's inner most planet is near center in this sharp, full Sun snapshot. Taken with a hydrogen alpha filter and safe solar telescope, the image also captures prominences around the solar limb, the glowing plasma trapped in arcing magnetic fields. Of course, only inner planets Mercury and Venus can transit the Sun to appear in silhouette when viewed from planet Earth. Following its transit in 2016, this was Mercury's 4th of 14 transits across the solar disk in the 21st century. The next transit of Mercury will be on November 13, 2032."

Quiet Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw3rl__nDM8

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I always found pictures of solar prominences fascinating. They are literally lay lines in the solar nuclear/ magnetic dynamo, picking up plasma from the solar surface.