2011 - STEREO Planetary Transits

Good day.

The following is a list of Planetary Transits through the field of view of the COR2 instruments on the two STEREO spacecraft for 2011.
As such it emulates the Sungrazers website for the SOHO spacecraft.
The STEREO site is now labelling the planets as they appear so this list will give you an early idea of when the next planet will appear in the images.
As usual, the times are UT and are +/- a few hours.

Mercury and Venus can transit in either inferior or superior conjunction. The inferior transit is dim compared to the superior transit.
Mercury in paticular will be virtually invisible during a dim, inferior transit.


Planetary Transits Through the STEREO COR2 Images:

AHEAD
09Jan 2010 06:00 - 12Jan 2011 16:00 Mercury L - R Dim, Inferior.
14Mar 2011 06:00 - 20Mar 2010 16:00 Mercury R - L Bright, Superior
24Mar 2011 04:00 - 27Mar 2011 02:00 Venus Dim, Inferior
27Jun 2011 22:00 - 05Jul 2011 13:00 Saturn L - R
02Jul 2011 13:00 - 14Jul 2011 02:00 Mercury R - L Bright
08Sept 2011 18:00 - 11Sept 2011 16:00 Mercury L - R Dim
13Nov 2011 00:00 - 21Nov 2011 15:00 Mercury R - L Bright
30Dec 2011 00:00 - 03Jan 2012 02:00 Mercury L - R Dim
(Entered FOV 28Dec 2010) - 08Jan 2011 04:00 Jupiter L - R

BEHIND
06Jan 2011 18:00 - 18Jan 2010 04:00 Mercury R - L Bright
03Mar 2011 04:00 - 05Apr 2011 07:00 Venus R - L Bright
15Mar 2011 04:00 - 18Mar 2011 12:00 Mercury L - R Dim
17May 2011 01:00 - 26May 2011 15:00 Mercury R - L Bright
02Jul 2011 07:00 - 05Jul 2011 17:00 Mercury L - R Dim
16Jul 2011 04:00 - 27Jul 2011 16:00 Jupiter L - R
03Sept 2011 11:00 - 10Sept 2011 09:00 Mercury R - L Bright
22Sept 2011 10:00 - 28Oct 2011 21:00 Mars L - R
15Dec 2011 10:00 - 23Dec 2011 16:00 Mercury R - L Bright
(Entered FOV 28Dec 2010) - 06Jan 2011 01:00 Saturn L- R

As with last year, this should be evidence that all is right with the heavens and nothing is perturbing the planets from their orbits.
No Nibiru/Nemisis/Whatever for you.

Have fun.


R.