Mercury exit animation (40s interval between frames)

You can see higher resolution animation and browse through it frame by frame by using K3's Astro Video Player - click the relevant icon:

1.44"/pixel, 194kB

0.96"/pixel, 476kB

Be patient, please, while sequence is loaded.

The animation on the left side shows the exit stage of Mercury during 7 min and 20 sec. Unfortunately, the strong wind destroyed many frames in AVI (blurred because of rapid movement).
The frames for animation were created from 1.15GB AVI by stacking about 22 frames series. The whole AVI was divided to sections with length of 50 frames per section (i.e. 10s interval). From each section the best 20-25 frames were stacked. All frames were aligned manually in K3CCDTools (no available program was able to align them automatically, because of movement of Mercury). Stacking was done in X2 mode (for better result resolution).
Then K3CCDTools were used for extracting G-channel from frames (the new feature of K3CCDTools, not present in current public release). G-channel is significantly sharper than grayscale image (remember, I used cheap achromatic refractor).
Result frames were loaded again in K3CCDTools and aligned for animation. Then they were exported to AVI file (still in X2 mode with resolution 960x720 pixels).
AVI file was processed in VirtualDUB program (used bicubic resize filter + unsharp mask 3, 15, 0).
As VirtualDUB generates only 24-bit not compressed AVIs, the result AVI files were converted to grayscale by means of K3CCDTools.

The animation on the left side shows frames in interval of 40s (reduced size). The speed is about 100x faster than real speed.
Click the K3's Astro Video Player icons to see higher resolution animation with interval of 20s.

Here is contact prediction table for my observation place (time is UT):

In the above sequence picture the T3 contact is visible at 10:27:46UT.