By Sanika Gawas | 2021-05-07
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On 05/10/2021 09:00 pm by David Hoskin| Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is at its greatest eastern elongation so its phase is the same as that of the first quarter Moon. Mercury was about 5 degrees above the western horizon when I captured this image just after sunset.
Celestron 102mm f/10 refractor/Nexstar SLT mount/ASI224MC with 2.5x Barlow
Preselected best frames with PIPP, stacked with AutoStakkert3! and Photoshop for post-processing.