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2016 Transit of Mercury
- kstrauser 10y agoYou can watch online at http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/transit-of-mercury-2016 http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/transit-of-mercury-2016
- dhimes 10y agoThis was excellent. Thank you for the link.
- jsingleton 10y agoESA live stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM688ZNSyWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM688ZNSyWQ Live visible image updated every 30s or so: http://cesar-tools.cosmos.esa.int/sun_monitor/image_hel_visible_large_latest.jpg http://cesar-tools.cosmos.esa.int/sun_monitor/image_hel_visi...
- shmerl 10y agoSee also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuIkL23Bsb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuIkL23Bsb8
- _rowstamp 10y agoI have a rarely-used telescope and decided to drag it to the top of a parking deck downtown to view the transit. However, I only brought about 20x (*edit... confused my 80mm aperture with 400mm focal length) magnification. Mercury basically looked like a speck of dust on the lens. That said, there is something about the physical process of amateur astronomy that still manages to make the experience meaningful.
- woliveirajr 10y agoI swear that first time I read the headline, I thought: now we will begin to discuss astrology here??? :)
- pjdorrell 10y agoOne thing I learned from watching the transit on a YouTube livestream of someone else's telescope view (because New Zealand was in the no-see zone) is that YouTube livestreams have live commenting that works just as good or better than Periscope, and I was chatting with the owner of the telescope. The only downside is the lack of easy discovery for current livestreams (if there's no special event to search for that people would be livestreaming), which I guess is what YouTube Connect will be all about.