Mercury sequence

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:37:07 +0000, Pete Lawrence
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:04:25 GMT, "Andy Guthrie"
wrote:


"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message
. ..
I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html

Very nice, and thanks for suffering to bring us this ! Btw, what are the
red lights at bottom left, some kind of mast and an aeroplane ?

Hi Andy - exactly as you describe I think. The mast is defintely there
and the red dot in the sky has come through because of the way the
layers have been blended together.

Very nice image Pete and I am pretty sure that the three red dots are
the Spinnaker Tower here in Portsmouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/conte...llery.shtml?17

- Mike

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:12:36 +0000, Mike Murphy evmurph.zetnet@co@uk
wrote:

I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html

Very nice, and thanks for suffering to bring us this ! Btw, what are the
red lights at bottom left, some kind of mast and an aeroplane ?

Hi Andy - exactly as you describe I think. The mast is defintely there
and the red dot in the sky has come through because of the way the
layers have been blended together.

Very nice image Pete and I am pretty sure that the three red dots are
the Spinnaker Tower here in Portsmouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/conte...llery.shtml?17

Nice try Mike ;-) The Spinnaker Tower was quite a lot further to the
right - quite easy to see from Selsey. I think the dot tower is on the
Isle of Wight.

I might be wrong but I think the tower is showing on the bottom image
in this sequence
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html.

I've got a wide field of the entire Portsmouth horizon somewhere -
I'll have to look it out.
--
Pete Lawrence
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Last updated 4th February 2006

Pete Lawrence wrote:
I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html


Nice work as usual Pete!

I started on something similar but with a twist ... an image of Mercury
every 3 days and precisely 30 minutes after sunset so as to capture the
change in position over five weeks. However, some misplaced clouds on
two sessions basically killed this project which would have been my
"Mercuralemma".

Anthony.

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:18:53 +0000, Pete Lawrence
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:12:36 +0000, Mike Murphy evmurph.zetnet@co@uk
wrote:

I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html

Very nice, and thanks for suffering to bring us this ! Btw, what are the
red lights at bottom left, some kind of mast and an aeroplane ?

Hi Andy - exactly as you describe I think. The mast is defintely there
and the red dot in the sky has come through because of the way the
layers have been blended together.

Very nice image Pete and I am pretty sure that the three red dots are
the Spinnaker Tower here in Portsmouth:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/conte...llery.shtml?17

Nice try Mike ;-) The Spinnaker Tower was quite a lot further to the
right - quite easy to see from Selsey. I think the dot tower is on the
Isle of Wight.

I might be wrong but I think the tower is showing on the bottom image
in this sequence
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/20050627/2005-06-27.html.

I've got a wide field of the entire Portsmouth horizon somewhere -
I'll have to look it out.

Yes that's it, in the middle, with some smoke obscuring its top. I
guess the lights I thought were it are the TV tower at Niton on the
IOW.

I'll have to take my long lens down to the Southsea beach and see if I
can image the Selsey lifeboat station :-)

- Mike

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:19:25 +0200, Anthony Ayiomamitis
wrote:

Pete Lawrence wrote:
I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html


Nice work as usual Pete!

I started on something similar but with a twist ... an image of Mercury
every 3 days and precisely 30 minutes after sunset so as to capture the
change in position over five weeks. However, some misplaced clouds on
two sessions basically killed this project which would have been my
"Mercuralemma".

This is a big problem with long projects isn't it Anthony. Something
always manages to clobber one or two of the images reducing the
quality of the result. After putting together my half lunation

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/moonview5.html

I haven't had the courage to try again and attempt a full one In
the UK this is a *real* challenge ;-)
--
Pete
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk

Pete Lawrence wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:19:25 +0200, Anthony Ayiomamitis
wrote:


Pete Lawrence wrote:

I popped down to the beach to capture a quick picture of Mercury. It
was perishing tonight. Took one shot and decided to try and be clever
and take a sequence. Unfortunately to be clever you need to prepare
and I hadn't! I'd left my remote timer at home as well as my watch.
The only timer I had was in my head so between each photo, I stood on
the freezing sea wall like a lemon counting from 1 to 60! At least it
proves I'm consistent ;-)

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/Mercury...006-02-25.html


Nice work as usual Pete!

I started on something similar but with a twist ... an image of Mercury
every 3 days and precisely 30 minutes after sunset so as to capture the
change in position over five weeks. However, some misplaced clouds on
two sessions basically killed this project which would have been my
"Mercuralemma".


This is a big problem with long projects isn't it Anthony. Something
always manages to clobber one or two of the images reducing the
quality of the result.

With the weather invariably being the greatest pain in the butt! I take
pride and joy in our weather here in the southeastern Mediterranean and,
yet, it has done me in on a number of occasions with various projects.

After putting together my half lunation

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/moonview5.html

I haven't had the courage to try again and attempt a full one In
the UK this is a *real* challenge ;-)

This is something I am eager to try as well and fingers crossed that
perhaps this year is it.

Anthony.