2019 March 12 ~ The waxing crescent Moon
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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 21.27 EDT (Moon altitude: 41° | Sun 23° below the horizon)
* Temperature 0° C.
On a still and only moderately cool evening, the waxing Moon stood high over Toronto, near the Hyades star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
At the time of this image, the Moon was 384,600 km from Earth, and 35.4% sunlit.
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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 ten of sixteen identical stacked frames - each frame:
● 1253 mm focal length
● ISO 160, 1/200 sec. exposure, f/8
Subframes stacked in Registax
Processed in Photoshop CS6
(cropping, image rotation, brightness, contrast, colour balance, colour desaturation)
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2019 March 12 ~ The waxing crescent Moon
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Photographed from mid-town Toronto, Canada, at 21.27 EDT (Moon altitude: 41° | Sun 23° below the horizon)
* Temperature 0° C.
On a still and only moderately cool evening, the waxing Moon stood high over Toronto, near the Hyades star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
At the time of this image, the Moon was 384,600 km from Earth, and 35.4% sunlit.
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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 ten of sixteen identical stacked frames - each frame:
● 1253 mm focal length
● ISO 160, 1/200 sec. exposure, f/8
Subframes stacked in Registax
Processed in Photoshop CS6
(cropping, image rotation, brightness, contrast, colour balance, colour desaturation)
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