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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
08/01/2022
06:27 pm

Equipment Details:

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in manual exposure mode

Post-processing Details:

Preparation of montage of 4 size reduced images.

Image Details:

Mercury Setting in Volcanic Sunset.
The accompanying montage of Mercury approaching the horizon and setting on 1st August was prepared from 4 still photographs selected from a time-lapse sequence of 54 taken between 6.23 and 6.27 pm using a tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 compact camera in manual exposure mode. Light levels were too low to record video.