Recommended gear
What you need, with an example of each item when we can link to one we are confident about.
Transit of Mercury
essential
Telescope with a front-mounted solar filter
Mercury's disc is very small: it can't be seen with the naked eye.
Never look at the Sun without protection outside totality. Ordinary sunglasses don't protect you.
We don't link to any yet: we haven't found a telescope filter whose product page shows its certification.
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