Mercury ?

[Davey-T]

Anyone seen Mercury ? I've been hoping to image it popping up in the dawn sky for a few days so having failed miserably with Mars last night I got up at 4.30am to have a go and could see no sign of it, nice first view of Orion, Castor and Pollux etc, hung around until the Sun came up but no Mercury 

Dave

[The Admiral]

In my recent limited experience, with a setting Mercury, it's a fine line between being bright enough to overcome the bright sky, and being in the murk. It really was not many minutes in total. But I guess you are aware of that! That's without a scope, mind, just a telephoto lens.

Ian

[rwilkey]

Hi Dave, according to Prof Ian Morrison ' On the 5th and 6th, Mercury, shining at magnitude -1, is just over one degree from Regulus in Leo (at magnitude +1) ' so should be easier to find in the east-northeast, if it's a clear night.

[MarsG76]

Also use binos, it'll help you locate it.

 

[Davey-T]

34 minutes ago, rwilkey said:

Hi Dave, according to Prof Ian Morrison ' On the 5th and 6th, Mercury, shining at magnitude -1, is just over one degree from Regulus in Leo (at magnitude +1) ' so should be easier to find in the east-northeast, if it's a clear night.

Thanks Robin, don't think I've got much chance of spotting Regulus if I can't see Mercury, I could see Procyon rising clearly and even a nice ISS pass, but Mercury didn't appear as expected, it was a bit murky on the horizon but I've imaged it before from this position, hopefully there'll be another chance tomorrow.

Dave

[Davey-T]

Had better luck today with a bit less murk on the horizon.

Mercury 02-09-18

 

Dave

 

 

[The Admiral]

Good news!

Ian