Hi guys.
Finally had a clear morning, so as promised here's my Mercury. Also as promised, it's nothing compared to yours and Steve's.
The seeing was shocking, 3/10, and my image sacle is just so small at 3000mm FL with a 2.4x barlow. Mercury was only at 19deg elevation, so the individual frames have horrible atmospheric refraction as you can see by the single frame in the image below. Thank goodness for Registax RGB shift!
Details:
- 10" dob with ToUcam
- 5th May 2005, 5:45am
- 10 fps
- 1/33s, 0 gain
Out of 653 frames, only 3 were worth stacking @ 95% quality. Is there any special (coloured?) filter you use for Mercury to make it stand out more against the ever increasing blue background as the sun rises?
Anyway, it's my first ever image of Mercury and it clearly shows a phase, so I'm happy
