Venus, Mercury March 16

Made a collage of Venus and Mercury at the same scale. Color is artificial (simulation of the daytime sky). 20:00 local time (+7 UTC). The planets' altitude above the horizon is about 8-9°, very strong turbulence. Two stacks of 10,000 frames, 10% stacked. Venus: magnitude -4.15 m, apparent size 58.33", illuminated 2.6%, distance from Earth 42.797 million kilometers Mercury: magnitude 1.64 m, apparent size 9.44", illuminated 13.3%, distance from Earth 106.617 million kilometers.