Mercury transit, close-up animation
Taken by Emil Kraaikamp on May 9, 2016 @ Ruinerwold, The Netherlands
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Attached are a couple of recordings and a small animation of the Mercury transit imaged with a 10" Newton in white light (+- 590nm). The animation is made from one single 50 second recording split up in time in 8 pieces. Each frame in the animation is a sharpened stack of the best 20% of the frames. Most of the background granulation movement is caused by seeing distortions. The granulation right next to Mercury is a little bit blurry, this is because stacking is a bit more difficult in that area.
Photographer's website:
http://www.astrokraai.nl
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Very cool!! (Or hot?)

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Posted by owleye1 2016-05-09 16:45:58
Exceptional and exceptionally rare, thx for sharing with us.
Posted by MikiBee 2016-05-10 00:50:25
Emil, I love your high resolution Mercury transit animation. The best I have seen. Thanks for sharing :-)
Posted by Philip Smith 2016-05-10 18:33:35
 
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