Re: [APML] Another Planetary Conjunction Picture

[Joe Pedit <pedit@email.unc.edu>]

>From: "Eddie Guscott" <eddie.guscott@blueyonder.co.uk>
>
>For those that aren't fed up with them yet, here's another.
>
>http://www.astropics.co.uk/thaxted_01.jpg
>
>Taken last Saturday 5 May at 21.57 local time. Unfortunately I 
>couldn't get to Stonehenge (nice picture Philip) so I travelled 
>to my nearest scenic area, Thaxted in Essex. One of the blades 
>of the windmill points to Mercury.

Eddie,
Nice image.  I couldn't find a windmill or historical monument to serve
as foreground for an image of the conjunction so I took my image from a
boat ramp with the smell of gasoline engine exhaust and dead fish
permeating the air.  The image is at
<http://www.unc.edu/~pedit/planets.html>.  It was taken with a consumer
digital camera so I better include some processing information: averaged
two dark frames <http://www.unc.edu/~pedit/dark.jpg> and subtracted
result from original image, and stretched resultant image with a slope
of two.
Joe

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