2019 January 16 ~ Waxing gibbous Moon

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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 21.05 EST (Moon altitude: 61° | Sun 42° below the horizon)

* Temperature -10° C.

 

The weather has been so bad in southern Ontario for the last almost two months that tonight was the first time since Nov. 22 that I have had the telescope out under a clear sky!

 

The Moon, in its waxing gibbous phase and 78% sunlit, was riding high over Toronto tonight, just four nights before the total eclipse of the Moon this coming Sunday night. It was quite cold, but there was no wind to blow the telescope around, so I was able to get very clear, high resolution base images from which to make this image.

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Nikon Z7 camera body on Explore Scientific 152 mm (6") apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6 SynScan mount.

 

Best nine of twelve identical stacked frames - each frame:

● 1253 mm focal length

● ISO 100, 1/250 sec. exposure, f/8

 

Subframes stacked in Registax

Processed in Photoshop CS6

(cropping, brightness, contrast, colour desaturation)

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