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What a great day, and totally unexpected to have clear skies for as long as we did. We had nearly 600 people view the transit of Mercury through the 5 solar telescopes available.
My sincere thanks to all of our volunteers.
The society got some great publicity out of the event... this is just a selection so far:
http://www.tribuneindia.com/photo/mercury-s-transit-a-stargazer-s-delight/14668.html
Posted : 09/05/2016 9:03 pm
Indeed, crap forecast followed by crap forecast and all turned out to be wrong. How gutted would we have been if we had decided to call it off!
Here's an image taken at the event just after first contact. Conditions were not ideal but at least we got something.
Mercury Transit 090516 by Rupert Smith, on Flickr
There was a fantastic sun spot group and filament in the middle of the sun which it looked like Mercury was going to pass through. The clouds appeared just in time to prevent that view though. Oh well, can't have everything...
Posted : 10/05/2016 12:32 pm
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Fabulous image, Rupert. I was watching at the start of the transit as Mercury went straight across that prominence to the right. It really was stunning to see.
Sumitra has completed a time-lapse of the event:
[vimeo] https://vimeo.com/166016361 [/vimeo]
which makes for a lovely memento of the day.
Posted : 10/05/2016 1:29 pm
<p>A great video, well done Sumitra, What a great day. Does raise an issue that needs to be discussed at committee, we need a hat policy for solar viewing.</p>
Posted : 10/05/2016 3:23 pm
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A great video, well done Sumitra, What a great day. Does raise an issue that needs to be discussed at committee, we need a hat policy for solar viewing.
The need for a white trousers policy is even more critical I think 😉
Posted : 10/05/2016 3:38 pm
I would normally suggest a Fez, but as we are mad dogs (and lady) in the midday sun than it can only be a Pith.....
Posted : 10/05/2016 3:47 pm
Can I suggest the Tune "Yakety Sax" by Rich and Randolf III for the video?
Posted : 11/05/2016 10:56 pm
