The Sect of Rama

While walking across the building this afternoon, I noticed my friend Will T. in the courtyard setting up a telescope. He tells me its to check out Mercury transitting the sun, which won't occur again until May 9, 2016. So I run down to my office to grab my point-and-shoot camera- here's a shot it produced while wedged against the eye piece. Thats Mercury at six o'clock, a sunflare at five o'clock.