Full Venus, full Mercury
Taken by Alberto Vacca on November 5, 2022 @
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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I wanted to try the challenge of imaging Venus and Mercury at their full phase (opposition) in full daylight time. They are further away and so smaller, but it was really stimulating for me because I tried to observe them at a small elongation: 3°31' for Venus and only 2°02' for Mercury. It was difficult to find Mercury because at such an elongation sky glare is really high, but I hid the Sun behind a tree and thanks to the clear sky I could find the smallest planet.
A short video was taken and processed for both planets with AutoStakkert, RegiStax and Photoshop. I didn't want to increase contrast too much so that the resulting view is really similar to the one I had on the laptop screen during acquisition.
Equipment: Celestron mak127 scope on its altazimuth mount, ZWO Adc, ZWO Asi 120mc-s.
Photographer's website:
https://www.instagram.com/alberstein08/
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