I hope folk with the proper equipment have taken advantage of the clearish skies to take a look at the transit that's now underway. Watching it from my front garden. No images likely from me, but it's a good clear view I'm getting most of the time, even though there's some thin high cloud.
Observing details from Sky & Telescope (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/may-9th-transit-of-mercury-everything-you-need-to-know/).
We saw it a little while ago in a brief clear patch from our back garden with high cloud drifting by. Roy now has a camera attached but clouded out at the moment!
The first hour or so was reasonably clear. Now, not so good.
It's been murky and drizzly all day here, just brightening a little now so might try for a glimpse of the event.
I managed 1 image of it and not sure yet if it's any good as I took it in RAW and forgot I needed to capture in Jpeg to stack in Registax, so will have to do some jiggery pokery with it.
I had intended to take 1 image per hour and do a mosaic but clouds put pay to that.
Carole
My plan was to take 8 hours of video and make a timelapse movie. But the forecast was cloudy and so I decided not to take the day off.
Mark
I set the ED80 up and had some good views, glad I did it
I've got loads of subs as the overcast cleared eventually and I could snap in the gaps. Otherwise it was a warm drizzly day.
Great to see the photos from everyone.
Well done everyone. Some lovely images there. I managed to get a couple of good snaps at the beginning and near the midpoint of the transit. I will post them shortly. Only DSLR @ 200mm though so not very crisp.
Photos (and associated comments) Split out and put into Astrophotography for ease of finding...
Roy's: http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=10758.0
Carole's: http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=10757.0
Duncan's: http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=10756.0