Transits of Mercury or Venus during a solar eclipse

[ricci]

Sometime during a solar eclipse can happen that Mercury or Venus are in transit.
But...

http://www.pierpaoloricci.it/dati/tr...clissi_eng.htm

[OzRob (Rob)]

I will write that in my diary...lol

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

I was thinking more of remembering it for trivia quiz nights. Although I have been thinking of starting a thread for next year's transit of Venus.

[gmbfilter (Geoff)]

Will the moon be in way?

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

If you look at the times it seems that the transits last longer than the eclipses, so the moon moves over and out again while the transit is in progress.