Improving the View.

Geoff Barnes · April 20, 2020

It has always bugged me that my view of Venus and Mercury has always been blocked by trees.

I finally decided to do something about it recently, armed with my trusty long reach pole saw and lots of rope I carefully removed several branches from our offending silver birch and ash trees and opened up a small but significant gap right in the right place, allowing about a fifteen minute window to view through.

I've since had a couple of good views of Venus although seeing through the low atmosphere makes it less than perfect. I've never seen Mercury at all so am looking forward to getting my first view later in the year.

Here are the before and after views...