Observation by Chris Hooker: Mercury, 25th June 2022

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2022 Jun 25 - 06:05

Uploaded

2022 Jun 25 - 10:46

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

254 mm F/6.3 Newtonian
5x IR Barlow
Baader 685 nm long-pass & Thorlabs 850 nm short-pass filters
ZWO ASI174 mono camera

Exposure

0.4 msec @ F/32

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury, 25th June 2022

About this image

Good conditions and excellent seeing (Ant II) for this morning's session in a clear slot before clouds rolled in and the seeing degraded. Mercury is just past half-phase, and a little less than 7 arc seconds in diameter. The final stack used about 4% of the total captured frames, which is a large proportion for Mercury, and the quality was such that no manual frame selection was required. The final image compares very well with the blurred WinJupos map, although as usual the wavelet processing has made the planet look more of a crescent than it really is.

Files associated with this observation

Mercury 25 Jun 22.png (82.3 kB)

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Philip Masding, Martin Lewis, Ron Johnson

Comments

Philip Masding, 2022 Jun 25 - 15:33 UTC

Great image Chris. Perseverance pays off with the seeing! No more clear mornings here.

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