Mercury & Venus 25-03-04

That slow moving bank of cloud was late tonight ;-)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.lawrence1/Venus/m-v250304.jpg
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Pete Lawrence
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Astronomy and digital imaging website (last update 21-03-04)

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:59:49 +0000, Pete Lawrence
wrote:

That slow moving bank of cloud was late tonight ;-)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.lawrence1/Venus/m-v250304.jpg

Very nice images Pete. I am particularly pleased to see the one of
Mercury as I managed to see it for the first time last night
(20040325) but a little later than you, at about 1902UTC. I tried
about 1840 but couldn't find it, despite the sky being fairly clear of
clouds.

At 1900, went out again with trusty 10x50 binoculars and those damn
clouds were nearly eveywhere. I swept the area that Sky Map Pro
predicted and there it was, in a gap in the clouds. Once located, I
could see it without the bins. A couple of minutes later and the
clouds covered it all up so I retired indoors and celebrated with a
beer.

- Mike
in Portsmouth, UK.