Observation by Chris Hooker: Mercury 21st Feb 2019

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2019 Feb 21 - 14:50

Uploaded

2019 Feb 23 - 21:28

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

25 cm Newtonian
Televue 3x Barlow lens
Baader 610 nm & IR-cut filters
ZWO ASI120MM-S camera

Exposure

0.8 msec @F/19

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury 21st Feb 2019

About this image

Mercury imaged in reasonable seeing, several degrees higher in the sky than the previous image a week ago. From a total of nearly 200,000 captured video frames, about 1400 were selected in software and then by eye, prior to processing in Registax to yield the final image. The appearance of Mercury is very similar to that on 25th March 2017: diameter, central meridian and phase are nearly identical, and so are this image and my image from that date.

Files associated with this observation

Mercury members 21 Feb 2019.PNG (301.0 kB)

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