Messenger’s Focus

Mercury

Mercury
Sketch and Details by Carl Roussell

Name: Mercury
Type: Planet
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Date: Sep 18,2008
Medie: graphite pencils om plain paper
Telescope15cm f/8 refractor, 300x,
Filters: W21 and W23A

Note: Trying to find and name features on Mercury is challenging and will let you feel like to astronomers of the past. The light patch on the is in the right place to Apollonia, and the two dark patches Solotudo Argiphontae (north) and Tricerna (south)

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  1. Carl,

    Very nice work. I have struggled to see surface features on Mercury. A real challenge is it not but fun trying.

    Frank 🙂

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