Mercury images?

[Fordos Moon]

Has anyone captured any decent photos of Mercury using an ED80 and Canon DSLR or similar?

I'd be grateful of any examples/advice/settings/ set up information if you have.

[Ant]

Mercury's angular size is quite small. Between 4"and 14" I beleive. With a ED80 and DSLR is't going to be tiny. The full moon is 1800" and 128 times bigger than Mercury at it's largest.

i have managed an image of Mercury, with a disc of sorts - but that was with a webcam and a 8" scope. (I cannot find the image right now)

it's got to be worth a go with the ED80 and dSLR but mercury is a hard target at the best of times, if you do get a disc it's going to be small.

Cheers

ant

[Fordos Moon]

Cheers Ant. I viewed it last night through some leafless trees using my 200P, the webcam idea makes me go hmm maybe, as have had some success with Jupiter (albeit a mightier beast).

Thanks for the response!

[Stephen Green]

I imaged Mercury some years ago and it came out very small and nothing really to show

Stephen

[Pete Presland]

its pretty tough to get any detail, especially with it being so small and so low in the sky