Mercury and Venus day time pics

[Marke]

Mercury and Venus from this morning 9am 28.4.19 . Not much happening on the sun so tried Mercury for the first time and a first for me doing planetary during the day . It was a bit of a challenge but happy with the results as its the first Ive even looked at Mercury.
C11 , ASI224 at f25

[multiweb]

That's amazing Mark! :eyepop: The first one is Mercury right? So much details. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Marke]

Thanks and yes first image is Mercury I was amazed just finding it and the detail was a bonus didn't expect that much :D

[multiweb]

Looks like a mini moon. Pretty awesome. :thumbsup:

[Marke]

That's what I thought to :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Did you use a IR filter or similar to bring up details or is this just plain LUM? That C11 is dialled up alright.

[Marke]

Was just straight up asi224 osc with the usual ir filter. I tried with the 290 and ir pass filter as well as rgb but the results weren't as good for some reason

[Somnium]

wow, really impressive stuff, was not expecting to see any detail on Mercury, well done

[Marke]

Neither was I lol

[billdan]

I agree with the others that Mercury came out really good with some detail on it.
If you want to get detail of the clouds on Venus you need a Venus filter which is essentially a UV filter that operates from 320 to 380nm.
However they are not cheap so you would have to do a lot of Venus imaging to justify the purchase.

https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/filters/baader-u-filter-(venus-and-uv---350nm).html

[h0ughy]

^^^^what Zee Frogginator said but without the outrageous Aussie accent. Fabbloodytastic

[Marke]

Thanks the filter for Venus is something I thought about will keep it in mind :thumbsup:

[Marke]

Thanks David be interesting to see more disk I'm not familiar with its phases yet

[N1]

Mark, this is outstanding. The Mercury image in particular.

[Marke]

Thanks :thumbsup:

[Troy]

Both hard target - but you did well