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Old 19-04-2012, 08:45 AM
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Moon and Mercury rising over Brisbane CBD

Hi all,

There was a nice conjunction of the crescent Moon and Mercury (at greatest western elongation) this morning, so I headed up Mt Coot-tha before dawn to get some images. I took an image every 3 minutes, beginning at about 4:15 am, and then stacked them using Startrails software. It worked out quite nicely, in that the pre-dawn colour was just beginning to appear as Mercury moved out of the top of the frame.

I haven't had a chance to do much in the way of processing of these images yet - I basically just stacked them. Will try and reprocess them this evening.

Anyway, here is the result!

Cheers,
Stephen
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