Planet Mercury and wind turbines, 19th April 2016

[lukebl]

Lovely view of Mercury this evening. 1 second @ 800ISO, Canon 750d, 18-35mm lens @ f6.3

 

[laudropb]

Very nice capture.

[Stub Mandrel]

Well done.

I was despairing of anyone reporting seeing it.

I drove into the sunset for half an hour yesterday and couldn't see anything.

Got home, spotted it, set up scope and webcam, couldn't work out why it focused so weirdly until I realised I was doing a 'star test' on Sirius. Mercury was well away from my visible sky patch :-(

Got some images of Jupiter, not sure of the focus yet but the live video was incredible, great seeing and transparency, I could see at least 7 different areas of colour on the screen with some detail in them. Moons were very clear too. But had some 'technical difficulties' so we shall see...

[mikeskor]

A fine and interesting composition.

[Pete Presland]

Fine capture and an interesting foreground as well.