Mercury on June 17th

Here's a near-IR result from 4 separate videos taken back on June 17th--- during one of the rare periods in June when it wasn't raining here in New England!

One of the great things about imaging Mercury is that it rotates so slowly that the best frames from videos taken over a period of a couple of hours can be used to make a processed image. The UT reported here is an average of the times involved during a span of about 1 hour and 12 minutes, during this time Mercury's CM changed by only about .24°!

--- John

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That looks pretty amazing to me John! I'm no expert on Mercury but the few images I have seen don't show anything like this level of surface detail. Very impressive!

Regards,
Stefan

Fantastic image John!

Kevin

Thanks for the comments Stefan and Kevin!

Unfortunately not many try to image Mercury so there's simply not a whole lot of images out there. Here's what's possible given an unusually good run of clear and relatively stable skies from mid October to early November of last year:

http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/mercury_oct15_to_nov2.gif

---John