Observation by Andrew Paterson: Mercury Transit Ingress

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Andrew Paterson

Observer

Andrew Paterson

Observed

2019 Nov 11 - 12:36

Uploaded

2019 Nov 12 - 17:11

Objects

Mercury
Transit

Equipment

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ228

Exposure

1/125 F6.5 ISO 720

Location

Hill Head

Target name

Mercury Transit Ingress

Title

Mercury Transit Ingress

About this image

A cropped view of Mercury during the ingress phase of this months transit. It was a very interesting sight visually and there was a definite sensation of black drop effect. I can see how difficult timings must have been for those trying to get accurate timings for the Venus Transit in 1769 when trying to establish the solar parallax and hence the sun's distance.

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