[sac-forum] Re: Mercury Transit
- From: <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:11:57 -0400
I bought a Kendrick Baader filter for my 80mm Shortube and plan on being in the
parking lot here at my work place. (which leads to an interesting "liability"
issue should someone walk up and ask to look)
I may also try to put my planetary CCD on it an let folks look via my laptop
(and capture some video for prosperity)
Jimmy Ray
---- Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is the club planning anything for the Mercury Transit on Wednesday,
> 8 November 2006?
>
> The next one is not until 2016. We are lucky in Arizona as nowhere in
> Europe or Asia can you see this and most of the rest of the east
> portion of the USA only gets to see part of it.
>
> Jeff
> --
> Jeff Hopkins
> HPO SOFT
> Counting Photons
> http://www.hposoft.com/Astro/astro.html
> Hopkins Phoenix Observatory
> 7812 West Clayton Drive
> Phoenix, Arizona 85033-2439 U.S.A.
> www.hposoft.com
>
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