We have been waiting to witness a Mercury transit for many a year, always the weather has misbehaved ... not today!
The transit began at 12.35pm and went on for about five hours.
The huge scudding black and white clouds hampered the viewing session, which meant that between 12.35pm and 2.00pm I only managed about five minutes of actual observing..... it was a perfect five minutes.
The little refractor and digicam behaved beautifully, and returned several photos that I later processed.
The results can be seen on this blog post.
We decided to go to Cardigan, as I reckoned the weather would be kinder to us.
It was a great afternoon, some people stopped and asked what was going on, a few had a quick peep at the little planet's progress, plus we met up with a dear friend and drank tea in the camper van.
By 2.00pm it was obvious that the clouds were winning the day, so we slowly packed up.
Cardigan was completely clouded out for the May 2016 Mercury transit, but today's Cardigan allowed that small five minute window.
Diolch Aberteifi.!
