Mercury transit across sun disc - 09 May 2016
There was a rare phenomena in the sky. The Sun, Mercury and our planet were in a straight line. The result is a freckle on the Sun.
There was cloudy and raining during the whole observing. Suddenly the Sun appeared through a gap among the clouds for only for 4 minutes. So I have got only one picture. However, I saw it...
| Optics: | Newton 170 |
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| Focal: | 1150mm |
| Aperature: | 6.7 |
| Exposure: | 170 x 10ms |
| Date & time: | 09 May 2016 at 12:24 UTC |
| Location: | Central Europe, Slovakia, Cadca, village Zakopcie |
| Atmosphere: | gap in clouds, raining |
| Pointation: | unpointed |
| Mount: | open fork |
| Software: | Registax |
| Camera: | QHY5 |