Thanks for the comments Eric, Laurie, Ray, Ralph, and Kevin.
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
Crikey, features on Mercury through amateur equipment. Never thought I'd see the day.
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I can't claim this is the first amateur Mercury image with some features -- I've seen some better images earlier this year on Cloudy Nights forum, for example. And years ago there was a write up in S&T mag about a fellow who was imaging in broad daylight with a special ventilated SCT (I believe he cut holes out of the carbon fibre tube of a C9.25!).
Anyhow, the latest WinJUPOS has an updated Mercury texture, so I did a comparison with a screenshot, scaled down and gaussian blurred. I think several of the features correspond reasonably well to the Messenger map!
-Ivan