Conjunction of Mercury and Pleiades
Taken by Eliot Herman on April 30, 2015 @
Tucson AZ
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Date Taken: 2015:04:30 23:06:33
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Tonight it is great to see Mercury on the day that the first human-made object touched the planet with the Messenger probe having transformed Mercury into a place. Mercury is still one day from closest approach to the Pleiades. This is a Lykeos stack of 22 images taken with a Nikon D810,300 mm F4 lens, at ISO 2500 and 0,5 sec converted to gray which eliminates some of the issues of the varying colors of twilight providing a bit better contrast to the stars. Seeing was bit murky tonight with some haze and light clouds.
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