The Moon after three days! (Davide Mascoli)

The Moon after three days!

Hello!

After long time I decided to elaborate also the here shared image of a crescent Moon, having very very few days, just 3 days! (around 10% of total illumination).

I shooted at the Moon when it was also low above the horizon on a summer night and it appeared to my eyes really fascinating as if it was the first time I was looking at! (even through the eyepiece). The Moon always transmits lot of emotions even if you look at that everyday.
As Galileo also noticed when it looked at the Moon's surface through its telescope in 1610, in the dark region light-spots of the very high "mountains" are already visible
together with all the craters, reflecting, so the absence of a perfect crystalline nature of its surface as ancients were considering.
Its "earthly" nature gave to the Moon so a more "human" nature and from that I think we felt, as humankind, nearer to it.

Also along the edges the very jagged profile gives us the sensation of an horizon full of riliefs and I really appreciate the edge at the very bottom of the image where Sun light is so grazing.
I also like a lot how the light is reaching the Mare Crisium, half in light and half in the shadows.

With post-processing softwares starting from the wavelets in Registax (after stacking of 10 images in order to increase a bit the S/N ratio) I tried to increase the details together with Photoshop and Pixinsight by keeping the noise low!

All the images have been captured without a filter and in a discrete seeing condition (but the thick atmosphere due to the low altitude has been also a great variable
also in post-processing consideration). But I'm really happy to have performed it!

I share also some technical details:
- main scope: Celestron C8 Edge HD
- mount: Celestron Advanced VX
- camera: Canon EOS 550D
- 10 light-frames @200 ISO (1/10 s)
- no filters

CS,
Davide.

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