Transit of Mercury

NOTES
DATE:
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
TIME:
21:03:09 UT
CAMERA:
Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
EXPOSURE: 1/200 second @ ISO 100
LOCATION:
Indiana Dunes State Park (near Mount Baldy)
INSTRUMENT:
Meade 10" LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain @ f/10
PROCESSING:
Unsharp masking, levels, and curves adjusted Adobe Photoshop 7.0.
COMMENTS:
Mercury is the 10 arcsecond dot located to the far right of sunpot 923, which is surronded by bright faculae.  Thank goodness this massive sunspot came around from the far side of the Sun just in time for the transit, otherwise this would be kind of a bland image!