Earth's Moon - Waning Crescent in the Daylight (Jason Guenzel)

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Earth's Moon - Waning Crescent in the Daylight

My rig finished up a deep sky session at 6:15am in the morning and politely parked itself waiting for me to wake up and bring it inside. As I began the task, I was interrupted by a bright eyed, cheery 4 year old pointing at the moon directly overhead.

"Do you want to see it up close?"

"Yes"

"OK, then"

Apparently only a visual astronomer, she first tried to look through the back of the camera cooler (ha!). But, I made good on my promise and had it centered on the computer monitor in a few minutes. I spent the next few minutes panning around the landscape. I noticed that it actually looked decent, so I decided to capture some video. It took a little while for the computer to process the 11 million pixels of data, and unfortunately stretched the limits of a 4 year old's attention span.

I actually was a little surprised by the result. It was taken through a luminance filter in broad daylight. While it is a little chalky and hazy, as to be expected, it still shows quite a bit of sharper detail. Because it was during the daytime, the histogram was very compacted. As I stretched the histogram out, quite a bit of contrast returned. I'm kicking myself for not shooting this through a red filter which would have cut out so much of the unnecessary scattered light. I also realized there just aren't as many images of the waning crescent. Many imagers are night owls and definitely not early risers, so this phase doesn't get as much love. Several shadows and features seemed somewhat new to me!

So, enjoy the slightly different looking moon .... and the fruits of my outreach.

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