New Moon (2 days) and Mercury 7/12/2010
Single shot 1/4 second, ISO 800 f/6.0 in twilight blue sky. Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5. Graininess/noisiness probably from the high ISO setting. Sadly, the separation of the obejcts was just a little wider than this optical assembley could frame.Slight vignetting in the bottom right is from a palm tree that got in the way.
Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA T-Adapter, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 400D DSLR, Ambient xxC (not recorded). Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider.
From 2010 A New Beginning
