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Crescent Moon with Earthshine Passes Near M45, the Pleiades

The crescent Moon with Earthshine passes near open cluster M45, The Pleiades.

Exposure Data
  • Lens: Takahashi FS 102 f/8 Fluorite Doublet Apochromatic Refractor
  • F/stop: f/6 with Tele Vue Telecompressor
  • Exposure: Composite of a 2 second exposure and a 16 second exposure
  • Mount: Polar-aligned tracking equatorial mount, unguided
  • Camera: Canon 1D Mark II DSLR
  • Mode: JPEG
  • ISO: 400
  • White Balance: Daylight
  • In-Camera Noise Reduction: Off
  • Filter: None
  • Temp: NR
  • Time 8:54 p.m. EDT
  • Date April 11, 2005
  • Location: Carranza Field, NJ
  • Calibration: None
  • Processing: Standard in-camera JPEG processing. Black and white points adjusted, crescent reflection removed with the healing brush tool, images composited together with layer masks, diffuse highlights added, color corrected. All processing in Photoshop CS2.



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