Title: Summer Crescent Moon
Date: Imaged 17 July 2018 (9:12 pm)
Location: Halifax, NS
Equipment: Tripod-mounted Olympus E-330 DSLR at ISO-400 and prime focus with 80mm f/5 Orion ShortTube refractor; 1/100 sec exposure.
Processing: A single 1/100 sec exposure was captured in RAW16 format and converted to TIFF format using Olympus software. Photoshop CS2 was used to adjust levels and color balance/saturation, as well as for noise removal. Microsoft Photo was used to tweak clarity, contrast, highlights, shadows, and exposure of the final jpg image.
Comments: The Moon is 29.3% illuminated, showing a nice color and a crescent shape. The sky appears dark due to the short exposure used when capturing this image. Mare Crisium and
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Mare Fecunditatis are clearly visible, as well as crater Langrenus on the east side of Mare Fecunditatis.