I nearly missed this myself. Tomorrow from roughly midday to early evening UK time, mercury will be moving in front of the sun. You can look up safe ways to observe this if you don't already. I stupidly am on work travel but did pack a camera with solar filter so will aim to stop somewhere and catch this. There is looking like a chance I'll get home early, in which case I can pull out more serious scopes. Weather forecast doesn't look bad where I'm working but looks worse closer to home...
Astronomy / Space Mercury transit 9 May
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One day of Mercury is longer that one year of Mercury. Strange fact for a human. Mercury makes a revolution around the Sun in 88 days, while its cycle day-night lasts about 176 days. We can say that two years are necessary to make a day on Mercury
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One day of Mercury is longer that one year of Mercury. Strange fact for a human. Mercury makes a revolution around the Sun in 88 days, while its cycle day-night lasts about 176 days. We can say that two years are necessary to make a day on Mercury
I've had days at work that felt like that.
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Livestream: http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/cesar/streaming
I thought I was going to miss the transit due to work, but in the end it might have reversed in my favour. Weather up north was better than at home. Got two shots, first in Manchester about 12:41, and somewhere on motorway services on M6 southbound an hour later. Note the haze present then. Got worse as I went south so no more chances for me.
Shots taken in "white light" with Baader solar film.
Shots taken in "white light" with Baader solar film.
Liked the notion of scale
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