Transit of Mercury Underway

by Mike Delaney


On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:10:51PM -0800, Matthew wrote:
Nice and clear here in Berkeley.

Pretty clear in South San Francisco too.

I had my 5" Mak-Cass setup for about an hour at lunchtime and after the 4th passerby asked me if I could take pictures through it, I remembered I had my camera in the car. I snapped about 20 shots, just holding it up to the eyepiece. This one came out the best:

http://www.lusars.net/~mdelan/mercury_transit_2006_small.jpg

Clip the ' small' out of the filename for the full-size image.


Posted on sf-bay-tac Nov 08, 2006 13:26:00 PT
Converted by report.pm 1.4 Dec 12, 2006 21:45:37 PT

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