Mercury Transit November 11 2019
Nov 13, 2019 00:09:19 #
I don’t know if anyone else tried to shoot this but here are two of my favorites. The white filter shot is with a Canon 7d Mark ii and a Canon 300mm prime and 1.4 extender. Image is cropped to pull details.
The othe image was shot with my Lunt 60mm H- Alpha telescope and a Celestron 236m monochrome CMOs. I stacked 300 frames of a 30 second video shot at 80 FPS with Autostakkert2 and wavelets adjusted for detail in Registax6.
I cropped and added color in Photoshop CC. This shot was a timing shot to have mercury touching the rim but actually over the corona sphere.
I’m really pleased with this years results. The first half of the transit was blocked by clouds but cleared at midpoint.
The othe image was shot with my Lunt 60mm H- Alpha telescope and a Celestron 236m monochrome CMOs. I stacked 300 frames of a 30 second video shot at 80 FPS with Autostakkert2 and wavelets adjusted for detail in Registax6.
I cropped and added color in Photoshop CC. This shot was a timing shot to have mercury touching the rim but actually over the corona sphere.
I’m really pleased with this years results. The first half of the transit was blocked by clouds but cleared at midpoint.
Nov 13, 2019 03:00:19 #
Nov 13, 2019 07:23:41 #
Wow, that is a nice exiting shot. That would be a nice shot for NASA to try and create looking back at the earth from somewhere in space. They may have done it, I just haven't seen one.
Nov 13, 2019 10:27:43 #
Europa wrote:
Amazing how small it is. I really like the 2nd, on the edge!
Thank you very much.
I was very pleased with the results of this years effort.
The best part was the almost total lack of wind.
Nov 13, 2019 10:30:58 #
GMTCM wrote:
Wow, that is a nice exiting shot. That would be a nice shot for NASA to try and create looking back at the earth from somewhere in space. They may have done it, I just haven't seen one.
Thank you very much for the compliment.
I shot back to back videos to get the effect I was looking for. Maybe I’ll get to try new things in 13 years.
Nov 16, 2019 10:29:54 #
Very cool, Jim!
I couldn't, even if I had wanted to. I was overcast.
But I'm really glad you were able to catch it!
Great catches!
I couldn't, even if I had wanted to. I was overcast.
But I'm really glad you were able to catch it!
Great catches!
Nov 16, 2019 10:47:57 #
SonnyE wrote:
Very cool, Jim!
I couldn't, even if I had wanted to. I was overcast.
But I'm really glad you were able to catch it!
Great catches!
I couldn't, even if I had wanted to. I was overcast.
But I'm really glad you were able to catch it!
Great catches!
Thank you Sonny.
I have learned a lot in the past four years since the last transit.
Nov 16, 2019 19:30:04 #
One last shot. This is with the Lunt 60mm pressure tuned solar scope and my Celestron 236C color CMOS camera. This is the color I see in the eyepiece of this telescope. I get more detail with the mono camera but I used everything at my disposal this year to ensure good results. Thanks to everyone that has looked and those that commented.
Nov 16, 2019 22:38:55 #
Nov 29, 2019 19:43:13 #
Nov 29, 2019 22:42:44 #
DickC wrote:
Very nice capture, thanks for sharing!! 
Thank you very much for the compliment and for taking the time to comment.
I am surprised that more people from this group either didn’t image this or were not able to.
I am glad I could share this with everyone.
Nov 30, 2019 10:02:18 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Thank you very much for the compliment and for taking the time to comment.
I am surprised that more people from this group either didn’t image this or were not able to.
I am glad I could share this with everyone.
I am surprised that more people from this group either didn’t image this or were not able to.
I am glad I could share this with everyone.
I'm glad you took the time to capture this, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see the event!! Thank you.
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