Is Mercury really this big compared to the Sun?

Mercury looks really big and bright to me too from your pictures, OP, and yet it's supposed to be so tiny. It also looks like a really wierd orbit - kind of sailing by somewhat high in the hinterland. I suppose it could be the mercurial Elenin but unless you know someone who knows someone we can't be sure. The other mercury transit photo looks like a post-it-dot on someone's finger kind of magnified and poorly lit. I guess more will be revealed? I'm out of here..."tomorrow is another day."