Observation by Nick James: Mercury transit

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2019 Nov 11 - 14:30

Uploaded

2019 Nov 11 - 17:45

Objects

Mercury
Observatory
Equipment
Transit

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

Telescope

Title

Mercury transit

About this image

The Sun would be too low to see from my main telescope so I set up this portable system in the NE corner of the garden where I could follow the sun down to around 4 deg above the SW horizon. This is a Celestron C6 (0.15m, f/10) with an ASI294MC Pro camera on an NEQ6 mount.

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