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Mother Nature was nice enough today, I managed to see about an hour and 10 minutes of the transit of Mercury across the Sun today before it clouded over! I wasn’t disappointed as I had to attend a meeting anyway and would not have been able to stay out longer.

I grabbed about 100 pictures and will post a few as soon as I process and resize. All in all a very good day and I am happy. Those that missed will have to wait about 8 years until the next one though.
Stephen

A few patches of clouds but I should be able to catch a few early shots.. Unfortunately I have to run out later for a meeting so I will have to shut down early today! Stay tuned for photos if things go well!

S

A treat for all astronomers on the the 8th of November 2006. The planet Mercury will be able to be seen transiting the face of our star, the sun.

If you have a telescope with proper solar filters (never look at the sun with your naked eyes, or with a telescope or binoculars with proper solar filters) you will be able to see this event take place over 5 hours.

Starting at 12:12PM MST Mercury will be visible against the sun’s surface. If the weather stays clear I will try and get some pictures to post on my site so stay tuned!

Stephen

I have just posted three shots I took of the moon. All three were taken Sept 8th between 12 and 1:30 AM through my Celestron C6SGT and with my Canon Digital Rebel XT. I am pretty proud of these as this was the first time I used the Rebel XT on that scope. Two are taken just directly through the scope, (the top half and the bottom half images) and the other was taken using an Antares 6.3 Focal Reducer (Full moon shot). Have a look. They can be seen in my gallery at the following location.

https://www.chinookcity.com/gallery2