Venus at 3% Phase and Mercury
Orion 10" f/3.9 Newtonian Astrograph
March 17, 2017
Uploaded 3/17/17
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close to the Sun taken around 10am this morning high in the eastern
sky. Seeing was like jello at this time of day! While Venus exhibits
a huge angular size, Mercury is a tiny 8 arc second disk. |
| Processing:
25/2000 best frames, alignment in Autostakkert, Wavelets in Registax,
Levels and Contrast Masking In Photoshop CS2, |
Instrument: Orion (GSO) 10" f/3.9 with 5x Barlow
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera: Image Source DMK 51AU03.AS
Filter: Orion IR Pass
Exposure: 1/30 sec 12fps
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 1/5, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature: 55F
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