Observation by Chris Hooker: Mercury at W elongation 22 Sep 2023

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Chris Hooker

Observer

Chris Hooker

Observed

2023 Sep 22 - 09:00

Uploaded

2023 Sep 22 - 11:02

Objects

Mercury

Equipment

254 mm F/6.3 Newtonian
5x IR Barlow
Baader 685nm long-pass & Thorlabs 850nm short-pass filters
ZWO ASI174MM mono camera

Exposure

0.48 msec @ F/32

Location

Didcot, Oxfordshire

Target name

Mercury

Title

Mercury at W elongation 22 Sep 2023

About this image

Mercury at western elongation and magnitude -0.45 although still slightly less than 50% illuminated. Conditions for imaging were fairly good, with a weak jet-stream and good transparency, although local seeing effects were troublesome at times. 20 videos of 10,000 frames were recorded, and 9000 frames were stacked and processed to make the image using PIPP, Autostakkert!3 and Registax 6. The main albedo features are a good match with a blurred WinJupos map.

Files associated with this observation

Mercury 22 Sep 23.png (48.6 kB)

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