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Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous, Mr. Ashley McGlone

Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous

Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous, Mr. Ashley McGlone

Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous

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Description

2020-04-04

Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous

Meade Starfinder 8” telescope (vintage)

Generic T-ring adapter

Eyepiece projection with Orion ExplorerII 17mm

Canon T3i

6400ISO

1/2500 shutter

24 image composite

Friday night/Saturday morning

48 degrees F

Stitching in Microsoft ICE

Editing in GIMP (desaturate, levels, resize)

Original stitched resolution 8400+ pixels

Resized to 2160 4k vertical resolution

First time successfully using DSLR with telescope.

Another gasp moment when it all came together.

The supermoon on Tuesday April 7 will be clouded, so I took these tonight.

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Moon 79% Waxing Gibbous, Mr. Ashley McGlone