Serendipity indeed

[Greenman]

OK, so powering up for the transit on 11/11/19, I purchased a Celestron filter for the front of my Nexstar SE6. Arrived yesterday at 11am. At 11:30 the sun (which had been out for three straight days) gathered clouds around it an disappeared.

My question is how do the forces of nature know!

Point a telescope upwards in the UK and bingo catch - 22 time.

[Altocumulus]

They be mysterious, and just know these things.....

[JayTee]

I'm fully convinced they are radio dispatched.

JT

[AntennaGuy]

OK, so powering up for the transit on 11/11/19, I purchased a Celestron filter for the front of my Nexstar SE6. Arrived yesterday at 11am. At 11:30 the sun (which had been out for three straight days) gathered clouds around it an disappeared.

My question is how do the forces of nature know!

Point a telescope upwards in the UK and bingo catch - 22 time.

But... you live in the UK, right? Isn't the sun normally not visible from there anyway? And how did you ever get three sunny days in a row?
:Think:
Heh heh. Best of luck to you for a full clear and cloudless day on 11/11.
p.s. I have the same OTA and quite probably the same filter. Hope it works on such a tiny spot as Mercury will be.

[helicon]

Sorry it didn't work out. It seems that whenever one really plans to observe or image a celestial event for a long time that the cloud cover is inevitable.

[Greenman]

Sorry for the lack of reply, been unwell for a while; anyways I got my image (snatched between clouds), a bit too out of focus to publish. But the visual viewing was good.

What do you call a UK amateur astronomer - well mostly over-ambitious we have more than our fair share of weather

[j.gardavsky]

The clouds, which are above the earth (terra), are operated by the exterrestrials (ETs in plain language).
And they don't want you looking up from the terra (earth).

As easy as it is,
JG