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Fantastic – I will be tuning in. My thanks to Nick and to all others involved in the technical aspects of setting this up.
There’s something rather terrifying about this image. Perhaps it is the impression of a widely dilated pupil that is disconcerting. It looks like the intro to one of those ‘behind the camera’ BBC documentary segments.
Indeed, Mercury is visible – so the eastern limb is at the top, I guess.
I am pleased to hear you observed the transit, Philip. The weather over the UK is not settled at the moment! My basic set-up was not up to showing the more subtle features on the solar disc, but I’m sure we’ll see drawings and images filtering through over the next few days that corroborate your obs. There certainly has been a dearth of sunspot activity in the past weeks! I just had to focus on the edge of the disc and hope for the best.
There are some nice images of the event captured by the atmospheric imaging assembly of the solar dynamics observatory here:
A bit of fun – here’s what I was seeing on the laptop at and around the critical moment! https://youtu.be/-ZnLqdqZ73g
Likewise, lots of cloud and very windy. Nightmare having to keep changing the exposure time in FireCapture. One frame – soon after ingress – with timestamp on image (the filename pertains to the avi).
The Hyperstar is out, secondary mirror in, focal reducer/corrector attached, telescope collimated & imaging of sun tested. Yes, I know where the north, south, east and west are now! Hope the weather cooperates…
Hello Philip,
Thanks for letting us know. The weather forecast is dreadful for NE England unfortunately. But if I do get a good photo…
David Swan
Thanks Mike. These sorts of things are very interesting.
“Other images include views of Wadesborough (8), Judge Bennett, “principal among inhabitants at Wadesboro”.”
You can’t imagine a report talking about a principal inhabitant nowadays!
Nice to meet you in London at NewSciLive.
We survived, thank goodness. The Daily Express had me worried.
36 x 20s midpoint 2019-10-23T19:32:34′ /UT
as a 5fps compressed movie, 5MB:
It’s quite bright now, isn’t it? (From your images.) It is overcast here, but I’m hopeful there will be clear patches in the next few days.
Imagine what these videos will look like in a decade, when the sky is crowded with low earth orbit artificial satellite constellations a la Starlink. More to come?
https://spacenews.com/spacex-submits-paperwork-for-30000-more-starlink-satellites/
Nice. Your stars are always nicely round across the field. The Hyperstar has such a tight critical focus zone. And I don’t always get it right!
