Transit of Mercury

NOTES
DATE:
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
TIME:
19:32 UT
CAMERA:
Phillips ToUcam Pro (640x480)
LOCATION:
Indiana Dunes State Park (near Mount Baldy)
INSTRUMENT:
Tele Vue Pronto w/ Coronado SolarMax 40 BF-10 (piggybacked on Meade 10" LX200 SCT)
PROCESSING:
Images acquired with Iris.   RegiStax 4.0 aligned and stacked 149 of 150 images.  Wavelet filters adjusted with RegiStax.  Further enhancements made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
COMMENTS:
Mercury is the 10 arcsecond dot located to the right of sunpot 923.  Thank goodness this massive sunspot came around from the far side of the Sun just in time for the transit, otherwise this would be kind of a bland image!