Mercury at greatest East elongation

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Managed to get some video of Mercury at greatest elongation yesterday during the daytime.

The conditions (seeing and wind) were not so kind this time as they were for the last eastern elongation (back in July), so I did not get as much detail.

This is a stack of about 600 frames, DMK21AU04 camera through a #25 Red filter, C11 scope.

Thanks for looking.
-Ivan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

good result Ivan. Difficult target - impressive to get so much detail. Regards Ray

[von Tom (Tom)]

That's a tough gig - nice image Ivan!

Tom

[midnight (Darrin)]

Well done Ivan.

Thanks for showing!

Darrin...

[Clayton]

Very nice Ivan Congratulations on such a tough target

[astronobob (Bob)]

Good one Ivan, the sometimes forgotten planet ! great to see its phase and the terminator brings the sphere into perspective well ! cool !

[OICURMT]

Originally Posted by lepton3

Managed to get some video of Mercury at greatest elongation yesterday during the daytime.

Copied a Messenger image when it was out near Venus I see...

Great shot! gotta love pushing the limits of imaging, high wind and all!

[naskies (Dave)]

Nice work!

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Thanks all for your kind comments.

...the sometimes forgotten planet!

Yes, seems to get less attention than it deserves.

Great shot! gotta love pushing the limits of imaging, high wind and all!

Well, it wasn't really high wind, but I was a bit nervous with an 11" scope pointing that close to the sun and the wind blowing the sunshade umbrella over a couple of times!

-Ivan