Contains:  Solar system body or event
Mercury, akion

Mercury

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

Mercury is a tough nut to crack - it never leaves the proximity of the Sun, so either you need to get up very and look at the horizont at dawn, or be ready to catch it while dusk sets in. If the phase is recognisable, you know you had a succesful observation.

To obtain this image of Mercury, I recorded 20000 frames, from which I stacked 417. (q=60%)

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