Venus & Mercury Widefield

[Alestrom]

I was setting up my stuff tonight hoping for a good run practicing my imaging, got to the drift alignment stage and a huge blanket of clouds appeared, proceeding to cover the whole sky and stay put...

Still, earlier I took a few shots as Venus and Mercury were decending out of view so I do have something to show. Apparently only about 1% of the Earth's population have even seen Mercury, I've spotted it on about a dozen occasions but it still feels a bit special I think.

100mm focal length at F4, 1/5th second exposure, ISO 800

[Gary]

Nice one, I agree it was the first time ever for me to see Mercury with the naked eye and many of my friends were thrilled when I tipped them off as to when and where to look.

[MidnightSun]

Nice shooting indeed.....