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Rocks, clouds, and heat: Mercury and Venus, LacailleOz

Rocks, clouds, and heat: Mercury and Venus

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Both these planets are near maximum elongation in the evening sky but both still give off the impression of searing reflected heat in the eyepiece, the one from it's rocky surface, the other from dense clouds.

This is a composite of the two at the same scale, to my mind recalling an image from "2001: A Space Odyssey". Mercury was captured in the IR850 band, Venus in RGB.

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Rocks, clouds, and heat: Mercury and Venus, LacailleOz