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Laboratorium Solaris: here it goes!

My mediocre contribution to the transit of Mercury fiesta :)

North is up, east is left.

The initial idea was to shot the complete ingress sequence, but I was confronted by to serious problems - very timely arrived mammoth-sized cloud and suddenly emerged mysterious power-outage :(

Since I can't deal with clouds I had focussed on the latter and won!

This is what I came out with...

 

Acquisition time: 16:05 MSK

Telescope: PST with 2x Barlow

Camera: TIS DMK23U274

6 out of 9 800x800 pix panels 25% 0f 500 frames each.

MS ICE refused to stich the latter three leaving the Sun trunkated...

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Uploaded on May 10, 2016