2016 June 24 ~ The waning gibbous Moon (close-up)

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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 04.36 EDT (Moon altitude: 32.6° | Sun 9.6° below the horizon)

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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

 

Best eight of ten identical stacked frames; each frame:

* ISO 160, 1/250 sec. exposure

 

Stacked in Registax

Processed in Photoshop CS6

(brightness, contrast, colour desaturation, image rotation, sharpening)

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Done