Well, it wasn’t a total cloud out for the transit of Mercury on Nov 11th after all, that said, the window of observing opportunity was limited to an hour or so during the early afternoon (at least from the Whitby and district area).

Several members did manage to get out and view the transit during this period, taking a few nice images of the event.  The transit commenced shortly after 12:39h, with the tiny black dot of Mercury entering onto the disk of the Sun.  Mid transit occurred after 15:00h, with the sun setting shortly after 16:00h with Mercury still in transit.  The latter part of the transit was again obscured by cloud.

The images taken are from Paul Wood (colour) Paul used a nearly 50 yr old 3.5inch Questar with an attached full aperture solar filter and a smart phone with Celestron attachment clamped to the eyepiece.

The projected image is from Richard Randle using a spotter scope with the image projected onto a white card.

The  two ‘phone camera to eyepiece’ images are from Elaine and Phil. They used a 66mm spotting scope with a 20x eyepiece and a Baader film solar filter.  A smart phone was the imaging device. Taken from inside a darkened summerhouse room. 

Transit of Mercury across the Sun on 11-Nov-2019.  Picture by Paul Wood.
(Click for full-sized image)  For more of Paul's images, see The Gallery.

Transit of Mercury across the Sun on 11-Nov-2019.  Picture by Richard Randle.
(Click for full-sized image)

Transit of Mercury across the Sun on 11-Nov-2019.  Picture by Elaine and Phil with a
phone camera.  (Click for full-sized image)  For another of Elaine & Phil's images, see The Gallery.

If you missed the transit (Mark did) there is a bit of a wait until the next one, in 2032!