Mercury Setting over Saquarema
Taken by Helio C. Vital on February 24, 2019 @
Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
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Camera Used: NIKON COOLPIX P900
Exposure Time: 100/100
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2019:02:24 20:00:54
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This elongation of Mercury has been a quite unfavorable one for observers in the Southern Hemisphere. Thus, in spite of being 19.2 degrees away from the Sun this evening, Mercury (m=-0.7) was only 11 degrees above the horizon at sunset. Luckily though, I managed to capture it, using a Nikon P900 CoolPix camera at auto mode, just before setting over Saquarema, a small coastal city 7 km away (and 50 miles East of Rio de Janeiro), between 18:57 and 19:02 (UTC-3h), as the elevation of the planet dropped from 3.2 to 1.9 degrees only. Illuminated in green, the Maria de Nazaré Church is seen standing prominently in the background.
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