Transit – Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society Dartford

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Honor recently took this video of a transit of the Sun by the ISS, something she has been attempting for 10 years.

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="782"] Image by Honor Wheeler This was taken using: Skywatcher ED80 refractor Canon 700D set in movie mode @50fps 2x Barlow EQ3 mount Date 2020.04.20 13:09UTC Transit time was 0.9 sec 16 frames extracted from the original video using PIPP and then the layers merged in Photoshop elements 6. Additional processing also done in Photoshop E6.[/caption]

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Despite the poor weather our members were out in force observing the transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun, something that has to be done carefully to be safe.

There were 8 members and 4 visitors at the Observatory with a variety of 'scopes . Rita and Honor also had their PST's on hand. Other members observed at their homes or online.

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="800"] TransitofMercury-MR White light photo by Mike Rushton taken 14:50 on 11/11/19. C8 with f/6.3 focal reducer on HEQ5 Pro. Full aperture glass solar filter Canon 60D at prime focus ISO 1600, Exp 1/400 sec.[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="741"] TransitofMercury-JM-2019-11-11 Image by Janice McClean[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="757"] TransitofMercury-MC2019-11-11-14-53 Image by Martin Crow 2019-11-11 14:53UT Ha Image[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="629"] 20191111_ToM Image by Honor Wheeler in White Light[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="800"] ToMRichard Image of the Transit of Mercury 11/11/2019 by Richard Bohner[/caption]

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Category: Transit

ISS transit of the Sun

Transit of Mercury, 11th November 2019