Bandar Seri Begawan – The planet Mercury will transit in front of the sun on 11 November and ends on 12 November (Brunei Time). The passage will take for a total of 5h 28m 48s and will be visible from America, Europe, Africa and Western Asia. The phenomenon will not be visible from South East Asia including Brunei Darussalam and Australia.
Planet transit takes place in stages and the followings are the key time of contacts (Brunei Time) :
I (first external contact of Mercury with the Sun’s disk): 20h 35m 26s
II (first internal contact of Mercury with the solar disk) : 20h 37m 08s
Greatest (distance between the planet’s disk and the sun’s centre at minimum): 23h 19m 48s
III (last internal contact): 2h 02m 33s
IV (last external contact): 2h 04m 14s
Mercury transit happens about 13 or 14 per century, and this is the last one for 13 years. The next one is on November 12, 2032.
These are the live video streaming links:
Link 1: https://www.pbs.org/โฆ/watch-live-mercury-parades-between-eaโฆ
Link 2: https://www.timeanddate.com/live/
Link 3: https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/
Link 4: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzcmd_KQpEw
Past and future transit of the inner planets visible from Brunei Darussalam (1901 โ 2100):
| Transit | Date Visible from Brunei Darussalam |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 7 November 1914 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 8 May 1924 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 10 November 1927 |
| Partial Transit of Mercury | Tuesday 11 May 1937 |
| Transit of Mercury | Tuesday 12 November 1940 |
| Transit of Mercury | Monday 6 May 1957 |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 9 May 1970 |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 10 November 1973 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 13 November 1986 |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 6 November 1993 |
| Transit of Mercury | Tuesday 16 November 1999 |
| Transit of Mercury | Wednesday 7 May 2003 |
| Transit of Venus | Tuesday 8 June 2004 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 9 November 2006 |
| Transit of Venus | Wednesday 6 June 2012 |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 13 November 2032 |
| Transit of Mercury | Monday 7 November 2039 |
| Transit of Mercury | Saturday 9 November 2052 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 11 May 2062 |
| Transit of Mercury | Thursday 12 November 2065 |
| Transit of Mercury | Monday 9 May 2095 |
| Transit of Mercury | Monday 10 November 2098 |