2015 July 8 ~ The Last Quarter Moon

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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 04.49 EDT (Moon altitude: 41 degrees)

 

The last quarter Moon, distinctly sepia-toned, sits over the city in the warm pre-dawn Toronto summer sky,

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Nikon D810 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan mount.

 

1200 mm focal length, f/8

 

Six stacked frames; each frame:

* ISO 64, 1/100 sec. exposure

Stacked in Registax 6

 

Processed in Photoshop CS6

(brightness, contrast, colour desaturation)

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