Mercury Transit

Monday was a very strange day for me and the family, but I found myself trying to photograph the Mercury Transit, as much as a way to keep myself occupied as for its own sake.

Hope astro fans find these intresting.

Overview

First and second contact

Close up

I was hoping to have a look but the weather was socked in all day.

Hi, I remember seeing the one back in 2003 looking through my welding head-shield. It was a clear sunny day then and was reasonably easy to see ( my eyes didn't need to look through a pair of windows back then.) I did try to take a photo of it through my head-shield, but all I got was a greenish yellow picture of the sun with not a black dot in sight. I didn't get the opportunity to see it this time around, even if the sky was clear or not.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 11/05/2016 23:10:42

I looked at Mercury with my Bresser telescope. I used the welding glass number 13 as sun filter. In Bergen, Norway the weather was cloud free and sunny.

Edited By Jens Eirik Skogstad on 12/05/2016 06:18:33

Edited By Jens Eirik Skogstad on 12/05/2016 06:18:59

Got some good views on Monday at the Cambridge Observatory. CAA members had set about a dozen scopes out on the lawn. We also had the Thorrowgood 8" f14 refractor doing eyepiece projection and the 36" with a ccd on it.

The best images were actually the smaller scopes with Hydrogen alpha filters which didn't suffer from the atmospheric turbulance so much. Solar prominances and spots very evident. Nice to catch mercury to complete the set of transits for the inner planets having seen Venus in 2004.

Link to the historic telescopes here for those interested.

**LINK**

regards Martin

I used a basic Bresser 70/700 from Lidl, together with Baader solar film!

An Ha filter would be nice

Neil

I saw a Mercury Transit delivering parcels and didn't need a telescope.