Earthshine on a waxing 5% crescent moon (Paul Macklin)

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Earthshine on a waxing 5% crescent moon

Revision title: Waxing crescent with earthshine

Earthshine on a waxing 5% crescent moon

Revision title: Waxing crescent with earthshine

This is first light on a new Zwo asi2600mc-pro! I took a series of 1 second images at gain 100 through high-altitude clouds.

This fits the moon into the FOV very nicely on the 8" EdgeHD (at 0.7x)!

With further processing, I was able to bring out the earthshine on the unilluminated portion of the moon without washing out the illuminated portion. I think this is the most dramatic moon photo I've taken to date!

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Title: Waxing crescent with earthshine

Description: I reprocessed to stack 75% of 60 x 1 sec, this time with a mild contrast stretch in APP but setting HL = 250 to reduce the washout. This got a surprising amount of dynamic range!

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Title: A focus on the crescent

Description: Here, I chose the stretching and processing to focus on the crescent.

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Title: Detail on a beautiful area of interest

Description: I love the ripples in the mare in this photo.

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Title: Another area of interest

Description: This region has a few complex craters.

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