Mercury in IR 08:02 UTC 01/09/2021

[multiweb]

This is my first go at Mercury yesterday evening. Having another go tonight as the neighbour's roof is probably cooler now :lol:
Not sure what to make of it but the phase and shades seem legit and match Stellarium. :question:

Best 7% of 22000 frames - IR 742nm - CN-212 - ASI462MC

[rustigsmed]

nice work Marc! lots of detail!

[multiweb]

Well TBH I'm not sure. The brain is really good at seeing patterns where there aren't. I don't have any other stream to compare. I was hoping to image tonight but there's still a lot of clouds hanging so not sure I can see the west horizon after sunset. Would be cool though because the temperature is down. So that roof is cool too.

[Retrograde]

Very cool I reckon! :thumbsup:

[Eris]

That's a really nice shot Marc. Very well done.:thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Looks good to me Marc.

Cheers

Dennis

[Dave882]

Great shot with plenty of detail there. The heat gradients are always a challenge in the early evening

[RichardJ]

Hi Marc,

Well done! :thumbsup:

Richard.

[Anth10]

Very cool.
Look forward to your next attempt.
Good luck.

[RB]

Are you kidding???
That's fantastic, great result Marc !!!

Nothing AIrificial there !!!

:2thumbs::cool:

[Camelopardalis]

Nice one Marc, I never expected to see surface albedo on Mercury :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Well thanks for the vote of confidence guys but I don't know if I can repeat that. Beginners luck :lol:

It's true that lower altitude for the inner planets is a problem. I have an ADC on order. I nearly bought one second hand last year as I recall there was one going through the IIS classifieds at the time but I was imaging Mars which was alright at 60 degrees or so and though nah... I'm good. Silly man :doh:

Going through the other Mercury and Venus stuff. Testing different settings in AS!3 and Registax. IR is still pretty bland in IR on Venus but UV as a heap lot of details.