Mercury
            Rising over the distant mountains


            
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 This was a most
            spectacular morning indeed for photographing and viewing the
            Mercury - Jupiter - Mars Conjunction. All fit easily within the
            11x80 binoculars, and was a fabulous photographic opportunity
            not to be had for another 70 years. You can just see Jupiters
            moons in the larger images against the orange twilight. The distant
            horizon is the 1800 foot Mogollon Rim escarpment.

            
Processing:

            
10D Raw images converted
            to TIFF with Raw Shooter, in Photoshop CS2 curves, saturation
            and general cleanup.

Instrument:  Stellarvue SV80S Refractor 
w/.8x TR2008 Field Flattener, EFR = 80mm f/4.74 @ 379mm FL
Platform:  Televue GEM
Camera:  Canon 10D @ ISO400
Exposure:  1s
Filters:  Standard IR Block
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  20F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Raw Shooter Premium
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