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Originally Posted by A Thousand Pardons
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Originally Posted by champion_munch
It looks kinda browny for some reason...and the disc is much more apparent than Venus'. Seeing them both with Saturn (I managed to get Mercury and Venus in the same field of view with my 8" dob)
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Venus's disk is 70% wider than Mercury's now, perhaps you got them backwards in the eyepiece? |
Well, even if I mistook which planet had a more visible phase, it would be pretty difficult to mix up the brightnesses. :P
But I have pretty bad eyesight, so anything's possible. 8-[
EDIT: sorry, I read your post wrong.....what I meant to say in my original post, was that Mercury has a bigger "bite" taken out of it, which makes it's phase more easier to distinguish.
with regards
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