Observation by Philip Masding: Mercury

Uploaded by

Philip Masding

Observer

Philip Masding

Observed

2020 May 20 - 15:58

Uploaded

2020 May 21 - 09:57

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

LX200 250mm SCT
ZWO ASI 290MM
Baader IR pass filter

Location

Manchester

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury

About this image

A stack of 2500 frames from 50000. A large cardboard box on the roof of my observatory shaded the scope from the sun. Success with Mercury means a good image and not frying the camera!

The reference image is from Stellarium suitably blurred to match the telescope image.

The bright white is Kuiper crater at at latitude 11 south, longitude 31 west.

Files associated with this observation

2020-05-20-1658_7-IR-Mercury Label.png (24.0 kB)

Like this image

Chris Dole, Bill Leatherbarrow, Chris Hooker, David Basey, Paul G. Abel, Andy Wilson, Martin Lewis, Tom Moran, Jeremy Shears, Peter Carson

Comments

Grant Privett, 2020 May 21 - 16:30 UTC

Sorry, I'm not a planetary imager. Is this with Registax or Autostakkert? Also, how are you selecting which images from your set to employ?

Philip Masding, 2020 May 21 - 16:33 UTC

I use AutoStakkert. It sorts the images on quality and makes quite a good job of it. I stacked the top 5% of 50000 frames in this case

Copyright of all images and other observations submitted to the BAA remains with the owner of the work. Reproduction of work by third parties is expressly forbidden without the consent of the copyright holder. By submitting images to this online gallery, you grant the BAA permission to reproduce them in any of our publications.

Registered charity no. 210769
Registered company no. 117572

For more information including contact details, click here.

Our Terms of Use are here.

Our Privacy Policy is here.