Mercury sequence

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.