Mercury Transit on 11/11/2019 (JDJ)

Mercury Transit on 11/11/2019

I was fortunate to have some success observing the transit of Mercury across the Sun today. There were high clouds throughout the day, but the transparency and seeing were markedly better during the last hour or so of the transit. This image was taken as Mercury approached third contact. Shot at high iso to keep the exposure short and freeze the atmospheric seeing.

Imaged with a C8 Evo, 2x barlow, and Nikon D750. Imaging train was configured to ~F/20. Single frame with 1/2500 sec at ISO-3200.

Original version: single sub, in-camera processed JPG

Revision B: Pre-processed RAW files using PIPP, stacked 10 subs using Autostakkert3, sharpened and gamma adjustment using Registax

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Revision F: Stacked best quality subs this time. RAW subs pre-processed using PIPP, stacked 5 subs in Autostakkert3, sharpened/stretched using ImPPG, colorized using color curves in GIMP

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