Mercury Image 2013/08/03(UT)
Livio Finocchi
L.Finocchi
| Livio Finocchi(200mm S.C) |
Mercury at 2013/08/03 03:43 UT Meade LXD75 8" f/10 222x+zoom 10x single shots. Good trasp. but bad seeing. I started to shot Mercury from 03:15 UT but low altitude, general bad conditions and brightness of the planet don't allowed me to obtain a good image. So I wait more altitude before sunrise and my last shots are a little better, even if I needed very lots of shots. But more altitude means more brightness in the eyepiece, so the phase appears more than reality(first image); I tried to shot Mercury using the flash of the photocam and the result is visible in the second picture.I think it's better, even if I repeat that conditions were not good this morning. Mercury was 6.9" diameter, mag. -0.4 and phase 51.5%.
[ Livio Finocchi,Tagliacozzo - L'Aquila ITALY ]
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