Mercury

I was looking back at the images I took with my Sony ZV-E10 camera last Sunday night of the crescent Moon and it seems I did in fact capture Mercury in one of the images, as I noticed a bright speck low down towards the horizon just below the cloud bank. The image was taken at 22:27 and when I consulted Cartes du Ciel for this precise time, it did indeed show the planet Mercury in this same position. At the time of capture Mercury was less than two degrees above the horizon, but fairly bright at magnitude -0.2.

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Chris Bowden