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Traveller in Time planetgazing
"Trying to project Mercury on the ceiling (large cardboard with pinhole reflected by a magnifying miror)

Do not see much, my projected sun is about 3cm Mercury would be less then 1 mm ? "

oh dear, you can do that with Venus transits and eclipses, but Mercury is impossible to see without specialist equipment, a big telescope with sun filter (hich I don't own) so I had to be content watching it on the 'net.

Here's a few:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160511.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-B2AnFiWw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhWMOkrzKzs

Traveller in Time with loads of lenses and mirrors
"Perhaps I should have used a telescopic setup. Still it was fun trying to get an image. Late afternoon managed to get a blurry image of 30 cm on te ceiling. "