Mercury 6th May

[AndrewP]

Did anyone get to see Mercury last night just to the lower left of the crescent moon? It was admittedly quite tricky being dim and in the murk but I was at flying at 4000' and got a pretty good view. It's only the 2nd time I've ever seen it!!

I'll try and get a picture whilst I'm flying tonight.

[John]

Yep - saw it last night and manged to get it in the eyepiece at 175x before it dropped below the hedge. It looked like a very small gibbous disk to me.

Then had a quick look at Mars, a longer one at Saturn and 4 of its moons before a quick glance at the ground at my feet to make it 4 planets and 5 moons in the space of 30 mins.

Great stuff !.

John

[lunator]

Andrew

Yep

I managed to see it in the Binos & naked eye last night

Cheers

Ian

[geoff_k]

Andrew

I managed to find it last night sandwched between mine and the next door neighbours roof so to speak.

If I get a clear patch over the next few evenings I am going to try and grab an image as it appeared quite bright in the binos.

Geoff

[AndrewP]

Glad it wasn't just me then!! Sadly, I couldn't get an image last night, sorry I should have got one on the 6th!

Had a look at stellarium and with the weather it should be good to observe over the next few days until about the 12th.

[taffy]

I whould love to have seen the planet mountains in the way towards the west.Mark