After 10 years of astro imaging, this was my first attempt to image Mercury. Taken 6 days after the best evening elongation of the year. | | Mercury Details: |  | | Night of: | Tuesday June 18, 2013 | | Site: | Palomar Mountain | | Local Time: | 8:30 PM | Jun 18, 2013 | | Altitude: | 10° | | | Distance: | 67,103,261 miles | | Magnitude: | +1.01 mV | | Diameter: | 9.32 arcsec | | Tilt: | +6.3° NP | | Phase Angle: | 118.01° | | Illumination: | 26.52% |
| | | Camera Settings: | | | Telescope: | 9.25-SCT | | Camera: | Celestron NexImage5 | | f/ratio: | f/10 | | Pixel Scale: | 0.214 arcsec | | Gain: | 4 | | Exposure: | 0.077 sec | | Video Length: | ? | | Frames: | | | Stacked: | 0 |
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