13 November 2019

More Mercury


FuzzGeff with an entirely different kind of camera and filters than I use was also able to capture the transit.

I'd no idea how rare such a thing was until reading a bit more about them.  It's a lot more common than a Venus transit, and about as common as a total eclipse.
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2 comments:

  1. SofwareJanitor13 November, 2019 14:37

    Unfortunately we missed it here because it was too cloudy. We have a Coronado solar telescope which uses a standard telescope 1-1/4" eyepiece. There are adapters for that to various webcams and to the Pentax DSLRs we've got.

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  2. Fuzzy Geff14 November, 2019 19:30

    I haven't used one of those scores myself, but I hear they're really nice. Especially this year, when you almost always needed hydrogen alpha filtering to see anything but a featureless disk.

    APoD shows the transit in that light today.

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