Interior Planets

[brianb]

Well, the sky went a peculiar bluish colour today, not its usual grey, and there was a very bright thingummy shining in it - the seeing was poor but I couldn't resist trying to image Mercury & Venus.

Mercury is small! This is a 200% resize....

2010 Jul 22, 1407 UT. William Optics FLT 110, x4 Imagemate, Wratten #29 (deep red) filter, Imaging Source DMK21 camera. Avistack 1000/5000

Venus is getting bigger, only 150% resize on these:

2010 Jul 22, 1416 UT. William Optics FLT 110, x4 Imagemate, Astronomik Planet Pro 805 IR pass filter, Imaging Source DMK21 camera. Avistack 400/2000

2010 Jul 22, 1430 UT. William Optics FLT 110, x4 Imagemate, Astrodon UVenus filter, Imaging Source DMK21 camera. Avistack 1000/10000

I seem to have captured detail on Mercury and in the UV image of Venus. The faint ring parallel to the bright limb in the IR image of Venus is almost certainly a processing artifact.

Transparency very good. Seeing poor with considerable boiling. Temperature 18C, wind N force 3-4.

[neil phillips]

Nice one getting detail on mercury, Ive never even seen it shamefull i know, good work

[barkis]

You always do good stuff on the suns inner planets Brian.

before, Detail capture on Venus you've done before, but Mercury has to be a first for you I think.

Ron.

[AztecastroMcJ]

nice captures there Brian, gud to see phases on these,

and bit of detail too,

how u find these in daylight is mystery to me

well done

James

[jgs001]

Very well done Brian, especially getting detail on Mercury... it's hard enough even finding it..

[beamish]

XLNT effort Brian ! good work indeed!

[DarkerSky]

Mightily impressive to get detail on Mercury !!! POW in my opinion

[Doc]

Totally agree and will echo what has already been said, well done Brian your Mercury shot is very impressive.