Mercury’s Sodium tail › Forums › Mercury › Mercury’s Sodium tail This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 2 years, 3 months ago by Dr Paul Leyland. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts 3 May 2022 at 5:30 pm #610053 Nick JamesParticipant There have been some spectacular images of Mercury’s Sodium tale taken during this evening apparition including this one here (https://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=184299) which was taken from La Palma with a narrowband Sodium filter. Chris Hooker managed to get it from the UK using a narrowband filter on April 29 (https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20220501_063522_1a102393e2531ae0). I was at 1100m altitude on La Palma on April 29 and managed to get some long exposures of Mercury which were unfiltered but they seem to have picked up the tail. The orientation appears to match the orientation in Chris’ image. My image is here: https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20220503_162036_9d4690e9d9404d7d. This is a single unfiltered stack and I was quite surprised to have picked it up. As Comet Section director I like planets that look like comets… Attachments:mercury_20220429_2101_ndj-scaled.jpg 3 May 2022 at 5:58 pm #610057 Dr Paul LeylandParticipant Nick James wrote: As Comet Section director I like planets that look like comets… I like comets that look like planets 😉 Most of the small junk out in the solar system like Caliban, Nereid, Quaoar and Makemake would be brilliant comets if they came close enough to us. This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Dr Paul Leyland. Reason: Fix [/quote] tag This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Dr Paul Leyland. Author Posts Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Connect with :Login with Sheep CRM Log In