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Dr Ski
Valencia Observatory
11/02/2019
01:55 pm

Equipment Details:

Canon EOS M100
215mm, f5. 6
1/640s@ISO250
Inset:
Prime focus thru Coronado P. S. T. at 19x
1/50s@ISO2000

Image Details:

Daytime Astronomy.
At 29% phase, the Daytime Moon is an easy target; even thru clouds.
A new active area just emerged on the Sun's SE limb today. The "hot spot" can be seen thru H-alpha, but I cannot detect a sunspot using a white light filter.
On Nov11, you lucky dogs with solar scopes living in the Western Hemisphere will see a very special "sunspot"; Mercury crossing the Sun's disc! I've witnessed 2 of Mercury's transits in my short time on Earth. It's very cool!