2018 Jan. 26 ~ The waxing gibbous Moon (close-up)

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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 18.43 EST (Moon altitude: 57° | Sun 14° below the horizon)

* Temperature 4° C.

 

The sky was reasonably clear, with some thin cirrus cloud, when I was able to get the ten base subframes that make up this view of the Moon high over Toronto early on this mild January evening before the heavier cloud moved in.

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Nikon D850 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan mount.

 

Best ten of fourteen identical stacked frames; each frame:

* ISO 100, 1/120 sec. exposure

 

Stacked in Registax

Processed in Photoshop CS6

(brightness, contrast, sharpening on right side of Moon)

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Done