Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
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Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
I haven't pulled out the telescopes for quite awhile -- but Mercury Transit is a worthy reason. Taken with a 106mm APO triplet, 700m FL, 2X Barlow. Using a Lunt CaK [Mark/Walter] mod (Herschel wedge plus Baader K-line filter). ZWO 174MM, 2.5ms, 126 fps. Best 50% of 300 frames in AS!2, RegiStax 6 wavelets, Photoshop Elements. Time: 13:20 UTC. Rather cloudy here in London but a few shots possible through the mediocre weather. Large image 50% resize (click for bigger pop-out); small image 100% crop,
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Another one taken slightly earlier at 11:31 UTC (click on picture for larger view). Unfortunately, earlier than this suffered from clouds and after 13:26 UTC some trees became a factor. Then came the rain! Nevertheless, I'm pleased with what I got as the weather forecast for London looked truly ominous. I look forward to seeing someone who can produce an animation of the whole transit.
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Great images - you seem to have caught almost exactly the same positions as I managed to capture
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Maybe we were under the same clouds? I add a final one which is 150% cropped at 12:09 UTC. I think it's the one where Mercury itself looked the sharpest. Click to see in full size. What a tiny little planet Mercury is!
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Great set, well done.
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Very nice! Glad you saw it!
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Re: Mercury Transit in CaK, 9 May 2016
Excellent!! these are super shots for a full animation you need to check out Steve Wards post, he did an excellent job.
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