Re: Mercury sequence

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/mercury-2006-02-25.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/content/image_galleries/spinnakertower_gallery.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.
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Pete Lawrence
http://www.digitalsky.org.uk
Last updated 4th February 2006
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