Observation by Chris Hooker: Mercury in IR 1st July 2017

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2017 Jul 01 - 15:00

Uploaded

2017 Jul 14 - 10:31

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

Orion Optics 25 cm F/6.3 Newtonian
x3 Barlow lens
ZWO ASI120MM-S camera
Baader 685nm IR filter

Exposure

0.521 msec

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury in IR 1st July 2017

About this image

Mercury is now moving away from the Sun and its phase is decreasing. The seeing on this occasion was relatively good, on the better side of Ant III, so I was able to be more selective in the quality of frames to stack yet still include a good number. The verification images agree well with one another, giving confidence that the features seen are genuine, as confirmed by the reference images from Stellarium.

Approx 70,000 frames captured; frame selection using Registax and VirtualDub; stacking and processing in Registax and Iris.

Files associated with this observation

Mercury 1 Jul 17 BAA.PNG (187.2 kB)

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