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Waning Crescent Moon Mosaic, Joe Shuster

Waning Crescent Moon Mosaic

Waning Crescent Moon Mosaic, Joe Shuster

Waning Crescent Moon Mosaic

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Description

This Moon image was taken at Blazing Star Observatory, near Salem, MO, on January 3, 2016 around 4:40 am. The telescope was an Explore Scientific ED127CF. The camera was a QHY5L-IIc.

Eleven 500-frame videos were captured. The best 40-50 frames from each video produced sections of an 11-piece mosaic. The processing software was Registax 6, and the compositing software was Microsoft ICE. Final image processing used Corel PaintShop Pro 2020. 

This phase of the Moon is seldom observed because of the predawn timing. The 23-day-old Moon was only 39° high in the sky.

Two Apollo missions -- Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 14 (1971) -- landed in areas south and southeast of the large central crater, Copernicus.

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Waning Crescent Moon Mosaic, Joe Shuster

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Lunar/Moon Mosaics