(SNES) Mercury in daylight!

[edward magowan <edward_magowan@yahoo.com>]

Totally unlike the past 6 weekends, this has been a
relatively nice Saturday.  I decided to view and tape
the sunspot group I've heard about.  I'll hopefully
run the tape through Registax tonight and see how it
came out.  The recent thread got me thinking of
Mercury - close to the sun (~6 degrees) but not much
more so than times I've spotted Venus, and at better
than mag. -1, too tempting to pass on.  Setting
circles did the trick, on the first try it was almost
centered in my 25mm eyepiece (on C8).  Lost and
recaptured it two more times.  1) fat head bumped the
scope, 2) so THAT'S what the declination clamp is for.
 I was even able to swap the 25mm for the almost
parfocal 15mm, making it an even larger featureless
white disk.  I tried to tape it also, but don't expect
much.  Needless to say it has made my day.  And now,
as much as I envy your clear skies (especially summer)
it's time to get back to the only thing that makes
living here tolerable...I'm getting the boat ready,
it's almost 80 today.

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