2019 Mercury Transit from London

[vineyard]

Managed to get some views in for the first 45 mins or so - intermittent, and then progressively more, clouds.  Managed to see second contact   Seeing the relative scale of the Sun & Mercury - wow, I cannot imagine how much the Sun must dominate the sky on the little messenger!

Couldn't get my ASI to focus (still learning how to use it) so instead just plonked my iPhone over the EP.  White light wedge, with and without a green filter.  The yellow photos below are obviously ones I've played with.  The other three are untouched on the colour, but just cleaned up a bit re contrast etc.

Kit was a TV102iis, Lunt wedge, and Lunt zoom EP.  (I even managed to see it through a Lunt 50THa but no shots of that).

Given how bad the forecast was, very pleased to have seen even a bit.

Cheers

[Pete Presland]

Nicely done