{I revere APOD. respect and eagerly await. open with aniticipatory delight, seldom in vain. numinous light, frequently displayed. I mean absolutely no harm, this is love and patience born of that love.
it took me decades to get a picture in my permanent memory of the path of the moon around the sun, and that was mostly from the encarta that shipped with Win95 on somebody else's box when I was still 5 years out from ownership.
I still don't have a retrievable grasp of the ecliptic, especially with all the 'travellers' combined. so a photo of the transit of Mercury is interesting to me, as would be any caption.
and to hit this opaque bit of simulated english in that most innocent state of mind...}
"The north pole of the Sun, the Earth, Mercury's orbit, although all different, all occur in directions slightly above the left of the image."A Mercury Transit Sequence
APOD May 27, 2003
