Monday was the transit of Mercury over the face of the sun, sadly I was at work at the time and observing it really wasn't an option unfortunately. Fortunately these days there are so many live sources of our star online that at various points I was able to get a virtual view of the transit. Here is the AIA1700 image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory I grabbed that shows Mercury as the small black disk nearly dead centre on the sun. The next doesn't occur until 2032, maybe I will be fortunate enough to have retired by then and will be able to observe it.
