Yesterday I spent the entire day outside following the Mercury transit. The weather was great more or less the entire time with a few clouds moving by from time to time. I have seen both Venus transits in 2004 and 2012 (Read about my Venus transit in 2012
here), but this was my first ever Mercury transit. All in all I'm very happy with the results and I'm really glad I got to follow Mercury during the entire transit.
Here's a photo showing my location and the gear I was using.
As you can see, I used both my 80mm H-alpha solar telescope and my 8" SCT telescope on my SkyWatcher AZ EQ5GT mount. Here some shots I took during the transit.
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| Solar telescope 11:15:30 UTC |
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| 8" telescope 12:27:14 UTC |
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| Solar telescope 12:43:12 UTC |
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| Solar telescope 16:37:23 UTC |
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| 8" telescope 18:37:16 UTC |
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