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Radu Anghel
Bacau, Romania
04/21/2022
08:00 pm

Equipment Details:

CC 8" f/12, x0.67, Canon 6D

Image Details:

Little Mercury at 154 km away. Brighter and higher on the eastern horizon. On April 29 it will be at maximum eastern elongation and very close to the Pleiades open cluster.
Here trough a thin layers of clouds - a 5 s exposure @ISO100 and 1600mm focal length.