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Well, today was the transit of Mercury (actually, it’s still going on at the moment, but I have work to do, so I’ve folded my tents.) I took my new solar filter and my Meade ETX 90, and brought it to work to show off this relatively infrequent solar event. Lots of people took a look during lunch, which was kind of fun. Fellow Pixarian Bena Currin brought in her image stabilized Canon binoculars and a nice little Sun Spotter gadget (pictures later) and we had some fun. During some of the slower moments, I decided to try to grab some pictures of the scene through my little Panasonic point-n-shoot camera. Below is the best of the pretty mediocre batch…

The larger blob to the top is actually a sunspot. The rounder dot toward the bottom right is actually Mercury.

Okay, it looks more impressive and sharper through the scope. Consider this the equivalent of photos you take with your cell phone.

[tags]Astrophotography,Mercury Transit[/tags]