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Imaging Mercury

This one is a challenge. It’s very small and it’s always close to the sun (as well as presently being 88 million miles away!). However, as it’s approaching it’s best elongation from the sun for the year, now is the time to take pictures of it.

This one is the result of stacking about 300 frames from a video of about 2000 individual frames. A narrow band Infra-Red (742nm) filter helps to improve the contrast against the evening sky.

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