Astroblog: The Moon and Mercury

Friday, September 14, 2007

The Moon and Mercury

Reader Chris Wyatt from Bendigo sent in this wonderful picture of Mercury near the crescent Moon (comlete with Earthshine). Click on the image to enlarge it.

It was taken last evening (Thursday 13 Spetmeber) at about 6:45 pm local time with his Canon S1IS at 200 ASA & 0.3 sec setting, at maximum magnification. Beautiful shot.

Labels: astrophotography, Mercury, Moon

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 6:44 am

Comments:

Heh. That's exactly what I saw last night as I rode home, and I wondered at the time if that was a planet. Way cool.

[Beautiful sky here last night. Not a hint of haze.)

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