Brent, I'm glad you are still in contact with us. Granted, its the internet, but you are a long way away. Regarding the transit, didn't you boast about having access to a 60" scope on Friday nights? Surely, for such an event, the scope would be available :) Though I doubt Chuck could provide a sufficiently large amount of baeder film in a letter envelope for that scope. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com>, "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:08:36 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2016 transit of Mercury Chuck, Here is the mailing address: Elder Brent WatsonCordoba Argentina TempleAvenida Pedro LaPlace 5647CP51475009CordobaArgentina Packages should be marked as missionary supplies with a value of less than 5.00 to even have a chance of getting through. Now, the unfortunate truth is that it would in all likelihood not get here. Someone along the way would find a nice scope and it would be short circuited. I did bring a small pair of binoculars along, and a better solution would probably be to send some Baader film in a regular envelope as a letter. The binos are only 10X25, and I thought I'd do eyepiece projection. Thanks for the offer, though. Brent On Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:32 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote: Brent, send me a mailing address. I can put together a spotting scope with white-light filter & tripod, and send it to you before the transit. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Brent Watson via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote: Thanks for the heads up Patrick. It looks like we'll be able to see it here in Cordoba also. Now, to find a way to look at it. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 7:17 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@digis.net> wrote: For those who may not have heard, Utah will have a transit of Mercury next year on 09 May. Info here: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/catalog/MercuryCatalog.html Looks like we will miss ingress with the Sun rising with the transit already in progress. Egress will be early afternoon. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".