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Thursday, June 01, 2017

The Crescent Moon

Last Saturday night I set up my Celestron 8 inch EdgeHD telescope in my back yard.  I attached my Canon 70D with a 0.7x focal reducer (so I could fit the entire Moon on my APS-C sensor) and took some photos of the Moon.  Here are a couple, processed somewhat.

This first image used an exposure of 1/50 seconds at ISO 400.  I used an unsharp mask to sharpen the image.

This image was obtained with an exposure of 1 second at ISO 400.  Along with an unsharp mask, I stretched the image quite a bit to bring out the Earth-shine lit dark side of the Moon.  You can see some mountains over the southern limb of the Moon as well as a few stars in the sky around the Moon.