Mercury Transit 9th May 2016

[Fozzie]

Looks to be good in Leeds, if not a tad windy so I've got the skytee2 and 72mm ED on WL duty.. should be stable enough!

Good luck everyone, hope there's at least a glimpse for most..

Ta

Fozzie

 

[Mark at Beaufort]

I am about to leave in 20 minutes to meet up with Herefordshire AS members to drive north up the M6. We will stop at Stafford, Sandbach, Knutsford until we fine clear skies. The car is loaded up with Frac and PST. I know its a bit of a journey but I did travel to California in 2012 to view Transit of Venus so whats a hundred miles

[Stu]

1 minute ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

I am about to leave in 20 minutes to meet up with Herefordshire AS members to drive north up the M6. We will stop at Stafford, Sandbach, Knutsford until we fine clear skies. The car is loaded up with Frac and PST. I know its a bit of a journey but I did travel to California in 2012 to view Transit of Venus so whats a hundred miles

Good luck Mark! Hope you find some sunshine.

I can't travel today so it's either a lucky break in the back garden or watch online, which doesn't really do it for me! Still, I got a glorious 6 minutes of the Venus transit before 3rd contact so perhaps I'll be lucky again!

[JamesF]

It's so cloudy here this morning that if someone asked me to point to the Sun I'd have serious trouble getting any more accurate than "up".

James

[Stub Mandrel]

Ha! the Sun's out in Burton! It's going to be cloud -dodging

[RichM63]

Solid cloud here. Well not quite solid, it is raining as well.

Rich

[andrew63]

Just started raining !  Good luck to all those travelling, i guess north for the event.  

 

andrew

[jabeoo1]

There is a tiny chance I may catch one glimpse of this, it seems that we are near 100% cloud here in the south. This hobby does my head in sometimes  

[Psychobilly]

Little or no chance with the weather here either heavy rain and possible thundery showers forecast for this afternoon...

Ho hummm..

Good luck with the transit  if you have the weather to observe it...

Peter...

 

[goodricke1]

Same story in Ireland, people heading north to get clearer skies.

[Owmuchonomy]

You are more than welcome to come here. Wall to wall Sun all day is forecast. I also have some Masham sausages and my BBQ to hand. Note my obsy view is restricted after about 5:30. Garden is ok though.

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[Pig]

Chris,

Thank you for the offer it is very kind of you, I will try Boston first purely on the grounds of the time getting home again. However, I may still take you up on the offer, I will send you a PM on here via my iPhone if it is crabby in Boston

[Pig]

I didn't see the note on the sausages  lets hope it is cloudy in boston

[steppenwolf]

Really not looking good here in the south but it ain't over until its over

[Fozzie]

23 minutes ago, Pig said:

I didn't see the note on the sausages  lets hope it is cloudy in boston

Sausages are one thing from Masham.. The fine local brew, both of them, are something else entirely!! Ah happy (foggy) memories!

[g30rg313]

1 hour ago, Mark at Beaufort said:

I am about to leave in 20 minutes to meet up with Herefordshire AS members to drive north up the M6. We will stop at Stafford, Sandbach, Knutsford until we fine clear skies. The car is loaded up with Frac and PST. I know its a bit of a journey but I did travel to California in 2012 to view Transit of Venus so whats a hundred miles

Supposed to be sunny here in penmaenmawr until 3pm but we seem to have some thin white cloud and some haze

[mcrowle]

Morning all. I've taken a day's holiday for the transit, but the forecast has been very poor down here in Cornwall. Current forecast is 100% cloud for the duration of the event, before starting to clear 1 hour after fourth contact : http://clearoutside.com/forecast/50.36/-4.74

I suppose I used up all my weather luck last year, with the March partial solar eclipse and September total lunar eclipse being cloud-free.

Good luck, all, with the transit!

[pblackwell]

Best of luck with clear sky's everyone! Sun is out in London at the moment hope it can hold on a few more hours before the promised clouds!

[LukeSkywatcher]

2 hours ago, goodricke1 said:

Same story in Ireland, people heading north to get clearer skies.

Thunder storms building already over north kildare. I feel like a storm chaser instead of an astronomer today.

[cotterless45]

Clear sky , high clouds , just spotted Mercury , ace !

Nick

[Stub Mandrel]

Miraculous! Excellent seeing here today - and Mercury is on the disc! The spot is showing a nice surrounding dark zone too, even in live view.

Sorry folks with cloud.

[Jonk]

Cloudy and raining in Portsmouth, forecast says 'only' 75% cloud around 3pm so at least I may have a chance of seeing it.

[Starlight 1]

 

Miraculous! Excellent seeing here today - and Mercury is on the disc! The spot is showing a nice surrounding dark zone too, even in live view.

Sorry folks with cloud.

Same here and looking good .

[cotterless45]

Compact camera , bleached out the spots, but there's Mercury !

[ianaiken]

Here are some SER preview jpgs.