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Date: 08 Nov 2006 12:01:46
From: Matthew Ota
Subject: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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Watch the word wrap:
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
Matthew Ota
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 01:34:07
From: Fred
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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On 8 Nov 2006 12:01:46 -0800, "Matthew Ota" <otakenji@bigvalley.net >
wrote:
>Watch the word wrap:
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>http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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>Matthew Ota
That's the best picture I've seen so far today, good job.
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 15:09:46
From:
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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George wrote:
> Lead underwear would also be handy.
Why would you want to wear underwear that would melt :-) ?
--
Brian Davis
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 23:55:27
From: George
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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<brdavis@iusb.edu > wrote in message
news:1163027385.943108.199560@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> George wrote:
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>> Lead underwear would also be handy.
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> Why would you want to wear underwear that would melt :-) ?
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> --
> Brian Davis
I like it hot! :-)
George
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 20:14:34
From: Gareth Slee
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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Matthew Ota <otakenji@bigvalley.net > wrote:
> Watch the word wrap:
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> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit
>%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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> Matthew Ota
Great shot!
You'd need a pretty good pair of sunglasses on the surface of Mercury I
reckon :-)
--
Gareth Slee
http://www.meroffice.com
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 16:25:23
From: George
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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"Gareth Slee" <gax.slee@ntlworld.com > wrote in message
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> Matthew Ota <otakenji@bigvalley.net> wrote:
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>> Watch the word wrap:
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>> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit
>>%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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>> Matthew Ota
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> Great shot!
> You'd need a pretty good pair of sunglasses on the surface of Mercury I
> reckon :-)
>
> --
> Gareth Slee
> http://www.meroffice.com
Lead underwear would also be handy.
George
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 18:55:37
From: Mij Adyaw
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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The Matthew Ota image really rules! Very cool!
"George" <george@yourservice.com > wrote in message
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> "Gareth Slee" <gax.slee@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:1hoi2u9.1gg77gdkisz6tN%gax.slee@ntlworld.com...
>> Matthew Ota <otakenji@bigvalley.net> wrote:
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>>> Watch the word wrap:
>>>
>>> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit
>>>%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
>>>
>>> Matthew Ota
>>
>> Great shot!
>> You'd need a pretty good pair of sunglasses on the surface of Mercury I
>> reckon :-)
>>
>> --
>> Gareth Slee
>> http://www.meroffice.com
>
> Lead underwear would also be handy.
>
> George
>
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 06:42:45
From: Rob Johnson
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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In article <1163016106.715456.32150@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com >,
"Matthew Ota" <otakenji@bigvalley.net > wrote:
>Watch the word wrap:
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>http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
That is a great shot! The sunspot came out a lot better than in the
images I took today. This was the first Mercurial transit of which
I took pics: <http://www.whim.org/nebula/astro/mercury20061108.html >
Rob Johnson <rob@trash.whim.org >
take out the trash before replying
to view any ASCII art, display article in a monospaced font
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 23:21:24
From: Pat O'Connell
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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Matthew Ota wrote:
> Watch the word wrap:
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> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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> Matthew Ota
>
Whoa.
The sunspot is icing on the cake. I'm impressed with what you've done
with your Canon Powershot A620. Gives me hope I can do something with my
new Canon A540...and a whole buncha adapters and other such expensive
toys. The astrophotographers I know have been warning me about this...
--
Pat O'Connell
[note munged EMail address]
Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 18:50:24
From: David Nakamoto
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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Pat O'Connell wrote:
> Matthew Ota wrote:
>> Watch the word wrap:
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>> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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>> Matthew Ota
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> Whoa.
>
> The sunspot is icing on the cake. I'm impressed with what you've done
> with your Canon Powershot A620. Gives me hope I can do something with my
> new Canon A540...and a whole buncha adapters and other such expensive
> toys. The astrophotographers I know have been warning me about this...
Nice image Matt !
I believe stacking a couple of hundred images or so would have improved
the level of detail, and eliminate that little bit of "blur" on Mercury,
but still a very nice single show (single shot?) image of the event !
Especially nice was capturing the white tendrils around the sunspot !
--- Dave
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Date: 10 Nov 2006 03:17:03
From: John Nichols
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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"Matthew Ota" <otakenji@bigvalley.net > wrote in message
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> Watch the word wrap:
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> http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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Thanks! Once again, when something nifty like this happens, Cleveland
misses out. Yesterday we had heavy fog.
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Date: 09 Nov 2006 19:02:11
From: AstroApp.
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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On 8 Nov 2006 12:01:46 -0800, "Matthew Ota" <otakenji@bigvalley.net >
wrote:
>Watch the word wrap:
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>http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroimages/album.asp?pic=Mercury%20Transit%20OTA.jpg&cat=Solar%20System\Mercury
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>Matthew Ota
What's so great about this picture, compared to the ones we got with
little 4.1 and 4.7 inch aperture scopes with much shorter focal
length, is that Matthew's image seems like an *extension of your
senses* -- it is an incredible enhancement of what you could perceive
and feel with a small telescope. That's what astrophotography is all
about when it's done well. If the photo is inferior to the eye view,
it doesn't even fully preserve an event that you experienced by eye.
I think one of the many images we did looked about as good as Mercury
appeared in the eyepiece of our small aperture scope. But here, you
get the awesome scale of the event, with lots more data collected so
that the large size is cleanly resolved, not just about to break up
into a pixellized pattern (the problem with our cheap webcam.) You
have almost a sense of the 3-dimensionality of Mercury: not merely a
disk against a bright light, but a *globe*. You also have more of the
detail of the huge sunspot than we could see at high magnification
with a 4" scope. Finally, you have a veritable freezing of the
daytime air: perfect steadiness. (We had slight turbulence and
typical daytime seeing for our home location in San Jose at 200 meters
altitude.)
And, we had to process the heck out of our videos and stills to bring
up contrast. This image looks 'real' and virtually unprocessed, not a
work of art but a document of the moment.
So congratulations to Matthew for making this event even more exciting
to us, personally. We did not have a solar filter to fit our C-11,
nor as good seeing: so this wonderful shot is the sort of thing that
lifts us to a higher level of perception than we were capable of
experiencing at the time.
RR & SRW
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Date: 15 Nov 2006 03:10:16
From: Chatter Nougat Chew-Chew
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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George! I didn't know you were a sleuth in astrophysics as well as
terrorism!!
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Date: 18 Nov 2006 07:01:30
From: George
Subject: Re: My best Mercury transit shot so far
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"Chatter Nougat Chew-Chew" <brightice2001@yahoo.co.uk > wrote in message
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> George! I didn't know you were a sleuth in astrophysics as well as
> terrorism!!
Umm, come again? On second thought, maybe not.
George
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