Mercury and Venus 20th May

[astroman001]

Mercury s only a few degrees away from Venus which makes it fairly easy to set the scope/camera up on Venus then slew across to Mercury.  Unfortunately there was some thin high clouds, hence the milky appearance.

There is nearly a 10x difference in diameter with Venus at 52.5" and Mercury at 6.0" diameter. Both images at f/22 on a C14 using an IR742nm filter.

Peter

 

Edited May 20, 2020 by astroman001

[Pete Presland]

Both very tough targets, so a good effort to get a decent image at the moment.