Observation by Peter Anderson: Transit of Mercury 9th November 2006 equ...

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Peter Anderson

Observer

Peter Anderson

Observed

2018 Sep 25 - 07:56

Uploaded

2018 Sep 25 - 07:56

Objects

Mercury
Equipment
Transit

Equipment

20X60 monocular projecting image onto card

Exposure

Not relevant

Location

Townsville, Queensland, Australia while touring.

Target name

Mercury

Title

Transit of Mercury 9th November 2006 equipment

About this image

Note Date is 9th November 2006.

Heath Robinson lives! A hastily cobbled together projection apparatus: 20X60 monocular taped to a camera tripod and the card shaded by bits of cardboard and a handkerchief. The card itself was adjusted square on by placing a flip flop (which Australians call a thong!) underneath. Our motorhome in which we were touring, is in the background and you can see that the equipment is literally in the gutter area beside the street. To paraphrase Boswell (I think) - but the original was a longer and somewhat questionable story, 'The wonder is not how well it was done, but that it was done at all'.

Files associated with this observation

Trans Mercury setup2 9Nov06 at Tville.JPG (270.6 kB)

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