[Atmob-discuss] Mercury... The Movie!

[Neil Fleming]

Beautiful work, John!

   ...Neil

--- John Boudreau <jeboud at comcast.net> wrote:

> Over the last few weeks I've been imaging Mercury
> with my Celestron 11 and Imaging Source DMK21 video
> camera.
> 
> I've assembled 5 frames into an animation of
> Mercury's rotation and phase changes as it recently
> approached and passed greatest western elongation.
> Much of the visible surface are regions that weren't
> imaged by Mariner 10 on the mid-70's, but will
> eventually be covered by the Messenger spacecraft
> that starts a multiple flyby sequence in January,
> leading up to eventually orbiting Mercury in 2011. 
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/mercury.htm
> 
> ---John Boudreau
> 
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