MERCURY
Mercury 5th May 2008. Shannon, Co.
Clare.
Shooting Date/Time: May 05, 2008, 9:53:04 PM
ETX-125 & SPC900 Webcam, 1min 46sec AVI, Processed in Registax.
Mercury 4th May 2008. The Burren, Co.
Clare.
Shooting Date/Time 5/4/2008 9:48:58 PM
Camera Model Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 5
Av( Aperture Value ) 4.5
ISO Speed 800
Lens 90.0 - 300.0 mm
Focal Length 90.0 mm
Mercury sets on the horizon
Video of Mercury setting (click
image)
28.02.2007
I took a bunch of avi's back in February of Venus and
Mercury and out of the lot
I managed to get one good 2min capture of Venus from which I got a nice image.
The disk was almost full but you could just still make out the phase.
In that bunch I had dismissed all the Mercury Avi's as rubbish.
After a visit to Dave Lillis one evening I realized I wasn't using Registax
properly at all.....and to make matters worse...I never kept any of my old Saturn / Moon Avi's!
But just the other night I found the old Mercury Avi's I thought I had dumped.
So, with a better understanding of how to get the most out of it I processed the best one of them.
Here is what came out....I'm pretty pleased with it....
I used a Philips SPC900 webcam, 2XApo Barlow, IR cut filter, ETX-125 and a
whole
lot of teeth grinding to try and focus anything other than a spectrum of light
on the screen.
I'm have to admit again, Registax is just simply black magic for processing
this kind of stuff.
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