May 9th Mercury Transit of the Sun.

[Paul Greenhalgh President]

Anyone thinking about being at McDonald park on the Morning of May 9th? Mercury will already be crossing the surface at 5:30 A.M local time. Got a message from Ken from All-Star Telescopes as follows.


Hello Paul,

My wife and I are visiting Abbotsford in a couple of weeks and will be around on Monday, May 9 during the transit of Mercury. I believe you are meeting at McDonald Park and I thought I would join you if that was OK. I'll likely bring along a couple of telescopes with solar filters.

Please let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Best regards,

Ken


IF YOU'RE INTERESTED PLEASE LET ME KNOW...and I'll be out there to open the park.

Your thoughts??

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Mid transit will be at 07:57 and end of transit will be at 11:42 PDT.

Planet should be about 12" across a 30' ish solar disc -- so that makes it 1/150th the apparent size of the sun.

Sounds like a fun event if sunny.  Hopefully there will be a sunspot or two too.

DSD.

[craig]

hey paul ill try and make it out