Solar Transit of Mercury 11/8/06
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Equipment Used

Telescope RCX 400 10 inch Ritchey Chretien
CCD Camera Cannon EOS 10D SLR
Focal Ratio f/5
Guiding N/A

Image Durations

12 exposures of 4/1000 of a second at ISO 200 were animated to show the path of Mercury across the solar disk.  Each exposure was taken 5 minutes apart.