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Captured the Elusive Beauty of a Slender Waning Crescent Moon, Andrei Dumitriu

Captured the Elusive Beauty of a Slender Waning Crescent Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Captured the Elusive Beauty of a Slender Waning Crescent Moon, Andrei Dumitriu

Captured the Elusive Beauty of a Slender Waning Crescent Moon

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Here's the 1.4% crescent Moon that I shot this morning. I've been chasing this low percentage capture for so long that I can now call it a "personal celestial achievement"!

I owe this image to my toddler. Although I've set the alarm early, I barely remember hearing it so I fell back asleep in a blip. I guess I can call this situation, in a figure of speech, the "astronomer's nightmare". Parents know what it means for a toddler to lose their pacifier during the night, so she woke me up in her search, luckily with still enough time ahead for me to setup the equipment. So thanks, kid!

Seeing was pretty good at 7/10 and transp 8/10, the Moon was at 4 degrees "high" in the sky.

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Captured the Elusive Beauty of a Slender Waning Crescent Moon, Andrei Dumitriu