Venus and Mercury 17th October

[von Tom (Tom)]

Here's my attempt at the two inner planets on the 17th October. Mercury in IR and Venus in UV light. Also with single video frames from the camera.

Thanks for looking,

Tom

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Wow, excellent images Tom, and a fortunate coincidence that we have both imaged both targets at the same time.

Your Venus shows the same equatorial dark cloud blob that mine shows, and your Mercury also shows Cunningham crater. It is great to have different equipment at different locations confirming that we are resolving actual features, not just sharpening artifacts!

Also, you have a small bright feature very well shown in your Mercury image (to the left) that I also saw on mine at various stages of processing, but it only stood out if I over sharpened and I was not convinced of it being real. However, there is a small but very bright unnamed crater at that position on the map, so I think you have imaged that as well.

Great result. Thanks for posting!

-Ivan

[Rod771 (Rod)]

Very nice Tom!

Great result, especially when seeing the single frame shots.

Well done!

[von Tom (Tom)]

Thanks Rod, and thanks Ivan for your analysis of the images. Yep the features match up very well with yours and it is heartening to see that we're not just looking at image artifacts
Cheers,

Tom

[astronobob (Bob)]

Excellant work Tom, how cool to have both yours & Ivans showing them details, Awesome ! !

[Quark (Trevor)]

Very nice work Tom, well done.

Regards
Trevor