Sun Observation

Don't know what to do during morning recess duty? Try some Solar Observing, I did! :) We used the Solar Shield we made in class.

On November 8, 2006 I was able to view the Mercury Transit through my 4.5 Orion Firstscope Telescope fitted with a Solar Filter. It was cool to view the Sun, I've wanted to do Solar Observation for a long time and this gave me an excuse to get the filter, although I admit that it was hard to see Mercury , but easy to see the big Sunspot. I used my CanonA75 to capture my telescopic view. If you look at the upper middle of the Sun you can see Mercury's shadow. The big dot in the upper right is the Sun spot. These photos range from 3:00- 5:00 pm.

The Exploratorium has a great clip on their website.