By Hassan Dadashi . Arani | 2024-05-29
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The planet Mercury
On 05/29/2024 12:21 pm by Steven Bellavia| Mattituck, NY
Although Mercury is only 6.5 arc-seconds across (for reference the full moon is 1,800 arc-seconds), you can still capture its phase and even some surface details, using today's modern equipment and software. This was done just after noon, with a very bright sun 17.5 degrees away.
TS-Optics Photoline 115mm triplet apo refractor
ZWO ASI 294MM Pro camera
SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount
Baader 685nm IR pass filter
The best 367 of 3,670 x 5 millisecond frames, captured in SharpCap and aligned, stacked and wavelet deconvolution in Lucien AstroSurface