Mad dogs and Astronomers go out....

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....when they really shouldn't.

Life got in the way of astronomy thi morning and I couldn't get out to do some solar until after lunch.

I was sat at the laptop, next to the scope melting in the heat.  Thankfully, the Sun has popped behind an annoying Leylandii to give me some respite.

I may have just managed a daytime capture of Mercury however. A bright spot on the screen that was static until I slewed the mount. Got it in the  center of the FOV and captured a video which will be processed later. Lots of white filaments floating by in the view- seed pods or something I suspect.

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Just done a Venus capture and then shut the imaging set up down, replacing the camera with a 25mm EP.

Nice bright disc of Venus and the slewed back to Mercury. Confirmed my earlier suspicions- bright point just discernible as a disc.

Pleased with the experience of broad daylight non solar or lunar astronomy.

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Poor images but here are the captures-

Mercury 15:08 BST 10-08-2022

 

Venus 15:27 BST 10-08-2022