Transits of Mercury

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:47 pm

you mentioned composite... since you have mct, did you mean a mosaic? or a composite of two images at different focus?

jiahao1986 · Post by **jiahao1986** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:59 pm

kingkong wrote:you mentioned composite... since you have mct, did you mean a mosaic? or a composite of two images at different focus?

sorry about language here, I'm not quite sure about which word to use. It's just that I can't shoot the whole sun in one picture, so I combine two pictures at the same focus using Photoshop.

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:11 pm

no problem. just wanted to clarify. afaik, you didn't use the wrong word.

Post by **zong** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:45 pm

sigh.. i just confirmed that i made a BIG BIG mistake ><

I called Lily up and showed her the sun before she had to bring her son to school. I mistook the sunspot for Mercury... -__-

The real mercury only appeared on my scope's projection after she left. I think i made her happy for nothing

and all the while i was looking at the sunspot.. By around 8:10, i was thinking, it's contact! Why is it still not moving? And after Contact 4 then I realised the "sunspot" was Mercury, and the "Mercury" is a sunspot.. By which time Mercury is gone, anyway.. ARGH.

Big laughing joke. Made myself and Lily happy for nothing

Took a few pictures with my brother's hp phone anyway, will see if any of them is worth posting ^^ It's amazing, because with even the HP phone on projection, Mercury is still a *little* visible, and the sunspots are definitely caught in the picture.

Robin Lee · Post by **Robin Lee** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:39 pm

Haha, I observed this through the online webcast. It's not that interesting but it's nice to hear the "DJ" to tell you some knowledge about the transit. Anyway, it seems like the sunspot is even more attracting. Any other feature observed through H-alpha filtered scope?

Jiahao, nice photo indeed. What are you studying in NTU? I wonder if a football went into the direction of your scope.

jiahao1986 · Post by **jiahao1986** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:44 pm

Kim Miau wrote: Jiahao, nice photo indeed. What are you studying in NTU? I wonder if a football went into the direction of your scope.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In college, nobody will get up that early to play soccer.

ravi0001 · Post by **ravi0001** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:45 pm

Hi the sunspot and mercury is impressive:)
good shot pal.

Lily · Post by **Lily** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:35 pm

I mistook the sunspot for Mercury... -__-

We had a good laugh when Zong informed me about the mistakes.

Thanks for inviting us Zong. My son got up without throwing tantrum knowing that we were going to see mercury transit. He is still happy about the whole thing. Put it this way, we still have a chance when it happens again in 10 years (?) time

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Lily

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:41 pm

Anyway, Lily, in another 5 years, your son would not be able to tell if it was the sunspot or mercury shadow that he saw!

kingkong · Post by **kingkong** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:19 pm

in 5/6 years we can all look at venus transit again. that one you can't go wrong... ;-)