Ok, why don't these folks look happy? Perhaps it's because they are missing a great event due to poor sky conditions. The next Mercury transit is not for 10 years.

Al Paslow Astronomy Collection

Images and events of personal interest.

Well the Nov 8, 2006 Transit of Mercury accross the face of the sun was a total bust from Mingo Creek Park Observatory in Washington County. We could not even see the sun's disk all day due to cloud cover. A number of observers and members were present despit the bad weather. However Paul Campbell sent me this image from Bridgeville- which shows the sun and Mercury crossing. We all at Mingo should have been this lucky!!

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Al-Paslow > Despite the bad weather Paul Campbell of Washington, PA got this image from work in Bridgeville, PA. He writes:

"Hi; here is a photo of the transit taken right around 3:00pm est. my time. I took my scope to work and set up about 1:30pm, it was raining. At 2:45 I said a little prayer and at 3:00 the Sun came out for about 15:00 min. I got off 5 photos of which 1 was good enough to post.

This photo was taken using a Meade 60mm telescope/350mm lens on a ds goto mount. The eyepiece I used was a meade 9.5mm lens mounted to a sony cybershot camera. The photo was taken in auto night mode using a solar filter I'm not sure but I think the sunspot above Mercury is 921."

Al-Paslow > Fred Klein ... just "hangin' out".

Al-Paslow > Larry McHenry's 8 inch Ultima with DayStar Sun equipment and video setup. Note: This is a small part of Larry's gear. Most of it was taken down prior to this image!

Al-Paslow > Larry McHenry center, Ed Moss and Shirley Ann Caseman.

Al-Paslow > Ok, why don't these folks look happy? Perhaps it's because they are missing a great event due to poor sky conditions. The next Mercury transit is not for 10 years.

Al-Paslow > From the time of the transit to well after 4:00 pm this is the best view of the sky in the vicinity of the sun! .... Not too good; too maany clouds!!

Al-Paslow > Here is the off axis mask designed & built by ED Moss to view the Mercury transit. Nice job Ed.

Al-Paslow > 2006 Transit of Mercury at Mingo Observatory photo

Ok, why don't these folks look happy? Perhaps it's because they are missing a great event due to poor sky conditions. The next Mercury transit is not for 10 years.