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Mercury Transits 2016First time photography a Mercury Transit.
Coronado pst solar telescope
Imaging Source DMK
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Literally a once in a lifetime moment. I think
Well done!
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Wow! Mercury looks so incredible tiny here...
Impressive shot - i can almost feel the heat of the sun
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I didn't know Mercury can transit across the sun!
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Thank you so much for the compliment
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Awesome job. I cannot compare it to my images, but you just reminded me that I have some images to uplaod here.
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incredible shot ... a small dot is there 
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Thank you so much.
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It's humbling to realized Earth is not much bigger compared to the sun.
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So true, sun is so big. Mercury is almost like speck across the sun surface.
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Indeed. Jupiter is a sizable comparison for the rocky worlds alone, but the Sun even puts Jupiter in shame.
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Cool image!
With the Coronado scopes, you can't remove the diagonal right? Do you just put your camera in the eyepiece socket?
I took white light images of nearly the entire transit, I'll put together a timelapse and a composite image one of these days.
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Thank you so much my friend.
I think the diagonal Is permanently attach to the main scope.
I use my CCD camera with a half of omni Celestron Barlow Len to eyepiece socket, because the PST has focus problems with Drls cameras and ccd camera's without special attachments.
That's pretty cool, time lapses pretty neat.
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Yeah, I read up on the PST after your notes. The university here has a larger Coronado scope that I may try to use for some solar pictures which I think shouldn't have the same back-focus issues. I started reading up on Ha solar imaging and apparently it's a lot of work! Nice shot again
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That's pretty cool, i wish i could get a larger coronado scope or lunt scope. Those scope are pretty awesome.
The back focus on the PST is a real pain for astrophotography, found out that certain ccd with work with it with a half a barlow.
It's fun, but it takes some post editing software to get the colors. Thank you so much.
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Yeah, I can't wait to try it out
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oh, wow! ... been some years since I last mount a canon dslr on a Celestron telescope...
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It's been awhile for me too. I mostly use it for deep sky astrophotography.
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Great shot! It was cloudy where I was at for most of this transit, though luckly it clear up for me just before sun set to allow me to make some observations.
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Thank you so much, that what happen to me with the Venus transit Of 2012 with the cloudy weather. That's pretty cool the weather got better at your location for the best part of the Mercury transit . Where Mercury was on the sun's limb.
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