Mercury 26th March (very low) [Archive]

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von Tom

26-03-2011, 07:53 PM

Hi all,

I went looking for Mercury this evening. Finally found it when it was 2.5 degrees above the horizon. Now I have my bearings (literally!) I should be able to find it a bit higher up. It is 1000 frames from the 12" Goto Dob and the Canon EOS 550D in 640x480 video crop mode. I have not processed the image any further and the atmospheric colour dispersion is quite apparent!

Cheers,

Tom

steve000

26-03-2011, 07:59 PM

nice pic. its really amazing how you captured the light being dispursed.. .imo more interesting than mercury it self in this pic :P

its not a great time to capture mercury at the moment.. fire up stellarium and go foward in time. I think next cycle/orbit/pass/whatever its called.. will be better as its a lot higher. venus as well when it comes back around.