Observation by Chris Hooker: Mercury in infra-red, 1st September 2018

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2018 Sep 01 - 06:45

Uploaded

2018 Sep 06 - 16:16

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

254mm F/6.3 Newtonian
TeleVue x3 barlow lens
ZWO ASI120MM-S camera
Baader IR-pass filter (685 nm cut-on)

Exposure

1.3 msec

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury in infra-red, 1st September 2018

About this image

Mercury imaged under initially good seeing conditions which deteriorated after ten minutes. The image shown was obtained from only the first ten video captures, a total of 50,000 frames, but the usable proportion of frames was about 2% which is very high. The resulting image agrees fairly well with the softened reference image from Messenger data.

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