Sunspot today? Nov 10th

[mantis]

Hope someone can still catch it today... Wednesdays Mercury transit here in NYC was a rain out but yesterday and today are very clear. Today I happened to check out the sun and behold- Im looking at what the transit would have looked like. In other words what I might be seeing could be a sunspot, I havent ever seen one before, but this looks exactly like the transit I saw covered on the weather channel in Chicago. Would Mercurys transit have been visible via the binoculars to paper method anyhow? What I see looks exactly like the transit ( dot is getting close to right edge ) and seems to be moving in the past couple hours. What is it?

 

[MeteorWayne]

Welcome to Space.com!<br /><br />The sunspot you are seeing is much larger than Mercury was (By the way, I'm just west of you, near Clinton, NJ so I saw nothing of the transit <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> ).<br /><br />I have a picture that a friend took from San Diego yesterday, I'll try and shrink it enough to post, but the impression I got was that the sunspot was 5 times the size of Mercury.<br /><br />The next Sunspot cycle has really begun!<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>