Essen, horizontal view

Internet Project

Observing, Photographing and Evaluating the

Transit of Venus, June 8th, 2004

Essen, equatorial view

Project 6: The Transit of Mercury on May 7th, 2003

First Impressions


(Difficult to concentrate on photographing!)


Binocular projection, 5.55 UT


Binocular projection, 8.56 UT


10.00 UT, time difference 1m40s
The position of Mercury measured with this picture differs from the calculated value only by 10''.8!
(The steps of evaluation are described in a short paper which can be found in our forum.)

Other first results you can find here and here.

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Prof. Dr. Udo Backhaus
last modification:  March 28th, 2008