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.
Thanks Tony and Tom. It was worth the early start, but I'm feeling it now! I have to say though, it was very quiet up at the summit this morning. Every other time, I've been joined by other like-minded photographers, but this morning it was just me.
I've just done a bit of a repro, making the sky colour a bit more vibrant and correcting lens distortion in LR3 before stacking the images. New version is attached.
Brilliant Stephen!! I was also out enjoying the view and taking a few pics. My pics are OK, but outa focus a tad so wont post on IIS. Facebook is much more forgiving.
Brilliant Stephen!! I was also out enjoying the view and taking a few pics. My pics are OK, but outa focus a tad so wont post on IIS. Facebook is much more forgiving.
Thanks very much Liz! It was a nice view wasn't it. I saw a couple of fairly bright meteors in between taking images as well.