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Old 07-11-2006, 11:36 AM
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Mercury Transit

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Pretty shoddy picture but sneaking in with the first transit picture posting so I'm hoping you will excuse it!

Clouds in Sydney this morning but some blue sky offered hope so I set up my etx-90 and waited. Between frustrating breaks between the clouds that only seemed to last a few seconds, I got a clear break for about 20 mins so I snapped some images on my LPI before heading off to work. I think I had my gain/offset set too high (max on both) but I needed to snap very short exposures (between .004 and .008 /sec) because the sun was moving all about on my screen.

Stacked in registax, contrast adjust in microsoft image viewer

Not sure of why mercury looks like a 3/4 pie

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1271/mercury2om2.png
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