Transit of Mercury

[Rick]

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.

[Sue]

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!

[Rick]

The first hour or so was reasonably clear. Now, not so good.

[The Thing]

It's been murky and drizzly all day here, just brightening a little now so might try for a glimpse of the event.

[Carole]

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

[MarkS]

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

[Fay]

I set the ED80 up and had some good views, glad I did it

[The Thing]

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.

[Rick]

Great to see the photos from everyone.

[Kenny]

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.

[Rick]

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