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19 Days Old Moon in Pisces, astropical

19 Days Old Moon in Pisces

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
19 Days Old Moon in Pisces, astropical

19 Days Old Moon in Pisces

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Usually, I do not roll out the gear for the Moon when it is merely 25° up, but after over a month of clouds and photographing bats at night, I could not resist in spite of thin clouds (the lock-down is no hardship but clouds are). I also took a few images with a 2x barlow at FL=1500mm when the Moon was just 15° up, but discarded all of them. The Jupiter and Saturn (approx. 42° up but obstructed by thin clouds) images were taken a few minutes before with the same camera and focal length and inserted to scale. Clouds ended the session then. On this day, the sky was the limit at FL=750mm yet it was good to be outside again under observation by bats hanging on the power lines.

The Moon image is a mosaic of three panels, each from a stack of 400 frames at 8-bit mono. Exposure 1ms at gain 100, 1.5x drizzled.

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19 Days Old Moon in Pisces, astropical