Waxing Crescent

Waxing Crescent

Two-day-old waxing crescent

  • Telescope: Stellarvue SVA130T-IS
  • Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini 2 controller
  • Autoguiding: No
  • Optical Configuration: 2x Barlow (f/14)
  • Camera: Canon 60Da
  • Light Frames: Single frame, 1/125-sec. exposure
  • Calibration: None (no darks, no flats, no biases)
  • Exposure Time: 1/125 sec.
  • ISO: 1250
  • Processing: Photoshop CC
  • Imaging Location: Sierra Nevada Mountains (Altitude: 8,600 ft)

This two-day-old waxing crescent of the Moon was shot while waiting for darkness to fall in the High Sierra.

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