Mercury's Observation

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Tonight I decided to go to the astronomy tower to do some observations on planets however, especially on Mercury!

Wow it is very cold tonight and very windy and the moon, wow, it is very bright and definitely a full, clear one! I am looking through the telescope and I spot a very rocky-cratered planet I record and check my observation and this matches with the planet Mercury! I look again through the telescope and I notice how similar Mercury looks against the moon. It is grey and spotty all over and you can see, clearly, the large craters and scattered boulders spotted around the planet. Mercury is round and quite large.

I am starting to get very cold, I wish it was day so the sun could warm me up however the slight glow of the moon brightens

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