{"id":764,"date":"2006-11-19T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2014-08-22T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:57:41","slug":"mercury-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury recently passed the Sun, a rare astrological event, which I could&#8217;ve captured from dawn (6:57am), 9th November 2006 until uh&#8230; well, I can&#8217;t seem to be able to Google the exact time, for once.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed up, taking a quick nap (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/athena.blogsentral.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Athena<\/a> for staying up with me and giving a wake-up call!) I took a stroll around my neighborhood at 6:30am. It was already bright, but I could not find the sun anywhere!<\/p>\n<p>But first, some shots around my place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn5.jpg\"><br \/>\nCoconuts!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn4.jpg\"><br \/>\nOld cars!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn2.jpg\"><br \/>\nCranes!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn3.jpg\"><br \/>\nBirds up for the sunrise!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn1.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe moon! I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=760\">infrared-modded Fujifilm Digital Q1<\/a> with the Seagull 50mm F1.8 Minolta MC-mount lens on the Pentax-mount Hoya 2x Teleconverter with the Hoya R72 infrared filter, shooting with an EV of -2. Yes, they are not the same mount and are loose but I held them together anyway. Equivalent to 600mm, then cropped the sides to 960mm focal length.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn6.jpg\"><br \/>\nIn comparison, the Canon Powershot A520 went only this far with just cropping and not resizing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn8.jpg\"><br \/>\nDammit, I thought, the sun was hiding behind clouds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn7.jpg\"><br \/>\nAs it turns out, it really only came out at 6:57am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn11.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe sun shows on the Fujifilm Digital Q1!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn12.jpg\"><br \/>\nI could not capture the blip, not even with the Canon Powershot A520 with Hoya R72 infrared filter at 1\/2000th of a second, F8.0, ISO 50 (as fast and dark as possible.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn13.jpg\"><br \/>\nMercury could only be seen if you had the sun filling up at least 2000 pixels, where Mercury would be <b>one<\/b> pixel. I wish I thought of somehow getting the sun projected upon a surface which I could then capture in full resolution!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn14.jpg\"><br \/>\nDifferent apertures make the sun look different; the CMOS sensor makes severely overexposed highlights&#8230; black. Stopping down the F1.8 lens shrunk the black part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Areolas anyone? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn9.jpg\"><br \/>\nI then sat at this mamak, which never looked grander in daylight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/mrn10.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;or infrared. The sun flare came from the infrared filter, and cannot be avoided by putting a lens hood since the sun is in the picture too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury recently passed the Sun, a rare astrological event, which I could&#8217;ve captured from dawn (6:57am), 9th November 2006 until uh&#8230; well, I can&#8217;t seem to be able to Google the exact time, for once. I stayed up, taking a quick nap (thanks Athena for staying up with me and giving a wake-up call!) 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