Originally posted by VoiceOfReason I have the equipment to be able to view and photograph this (solar filters, Coronado telescope, K mount adapter to the telescope) and yet again it will be wet. Again. More rain. Again.
Originally posted by Not a Number The past 6 years whenever there has been an astronomical event that would be visible to me it has usually been overcast or raining.
Well, I have had more or less 6 months of constant overcast/rain, but the last 5 days have been fantastic. So, I sneaked my K-3 and Tamron Adaptall-2 300/5.6 lens with me to work and continued on my way to home and at home and I got some reasonable pictures every half hour or so. Here are just some preliminary results - mostly handheld JPEGs straight out of the camera, 100% crops:
UT = 11:28
UT= 12:37
UT = 18:19
Not exactly spectacular - and I am sure VoiceOfReason's Coronado could have done much better - but anyway nice to have proof that "I have been there". And there's fortunately a small sunspot that should allow me to align my handheld shots and thus, to construct Mercury's trajectory over the solar disk. Well, that will have to be some other, rainy day..........