The transit of Mercury
Taken by Peter von Bagh on May 9, 2016 @ Porvoo, Finland
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  Camera Used: SAMSUNG NX300
Exposure Time: 1/400
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2016:05:09 20:31:43
  
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The sky was clear and the weather very warm for finnish may. We reflected the sun with the mercury on a paper sheet with an old small telescope and tried to measure the speed of the planet, it was about 0,001 degrees/min.
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Nice work... my work showed that Mercury was moving across solar disk at 0.001179 Degrees / min
Posted by mbnaqvi78 2016-05-10 13:16:03
 
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