Transit of Mercury!

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Happening now. Try to catch it, if you have the gear.

I put a Baader solar filter on a decent monocular; no sunspots - but Mercury is so dang small! Did not see, will try again.

Not enough power on the mono and I no longer have a decent 'scope, preferring "light bucket" binocs to a telescope these days.

Anyways. It's online. May as well see; next one may not be in this lifetime ...

Mercury Transit 2019: How to Watch the Rare Event Live Online

If you don't have the right gear to see Mercury transit the sun on Monday (Nov. 11), you don't have to miss out! Here are some live webcasts you can watch instead.

www.space.com

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[Ad Astra]

OK, saw it!

"Faint hear ne'er won fair lady."

Saw where to look online, prefocused well, and though faint I saw it with an 8x monocular and a 10x pair of Leupolds.

A reminder: unless you HAVE a Baader solar filter or the equivalent laying around DO NOT TRY THIS.

Looking at the sun WILL blind you.

So they say. I have the solar filters laying around from last year's Great Eclipse.

You might, too. But just looking at the sun, Mercury is one tiny dot.


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[ajkel64]

I missed it all. Might have to look at getting some sort of telescope. We have a landing upstairs that gets no use. Should put a telescope or something similar there and I might actually use it and learn about the stars at the same time.

 

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I missed it all. Might have to look at getting some sort of telescope. We have a landing upstairs that gets no use. Should put a telescope or something similar there and I might actually use it and learn about the stars at the same time.

From the Land of the Southern Cross? Would think so!

Lucky astronomers there see Proxima, too.


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