Picture captured on 06/24/2006 in the evening at the focus of a 8" MEADE LX200 telescope equipped with a lengthened 3x Barlow lens (F/D=36). At that moment Mercury was 12 degrees above the horizon and sun had just disappeared. Aiming Mercury in daylight would not have been possible without using GOTO function of the LX200. Camera model is a Philips Vesta Pro. Mercury was at a distance of 114 millions kilometers from earth. This picture is a combination of 220 pictures processed through a wavelet filter with IRIS software.
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Picture captured on 04/18/2003 in the evening at the focus of a 8" MEADE LX10 telescope equipped with a lengthened 3x Barlow lens (F/D=36). Camera model is a Philips Vesta Pro. Chromatic dispersion is important because Mercury is only 12 degrees above the horizon at this moment. This picture is a combination of 90 pictures processed through a wavelet filter with IRIS software.
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This picture of Mercury in front of the sun was captured during the Mercury transit of may 7th 2003 at the focus of a 8" MEADE LX10 telescope (F/D=10). Camera model is a Philips Vesta Pro. This picture is a combination of 8 raw pictures processed through a wavelet filter with IRIS software.
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