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Moon and Antares Conjunction (Aug 24, 2023).jpg

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On August 24, 2023 the waxing gibbous Moon occulted the bright star Antares in Scorpius. This is the scene about 30 minutes after the star reappeared from behind the moving Moon, and so here is a close conjunction. I missed capturing the actual occultation reappearance, though that would have been in a much brighter sky. And the Moon was low in my sky and amid the trees, here purposefully included to capture the scene low in the south, as Antares always is in late summer from my latitude of 51° N. .

This is a blend of 8 exposures from 2.5 seconds for the sky, foreground and stars, to 1/50 second for the lunar disk, to preserve details on the Moon. Blended with luminosity masks created with TK9 Actions, but adjusted with feathering to smooth the blends. All with the Canon R5 and RF70-200mm lens at 200mm, untracked. A mild Orton glow was added with Luminar Neo. Hot pixels in the ground removed with a D&S filter on a stamped layer with a Darken blend mode.
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On August 24, 2023 the waxing gibbous Moon occulted the bright star Antares in Scorpius. This is the scene about 30 minutes after the star reappeared from behind the moving Moon, and so here is a close conjunction. I missed capturing the actual occultation reappearance, though that would have been in a much brighter sky. And the Moon was low in my sky and amid the trees, here purposefully included to capture the scene low in the south, as Antares always is in late summer from my latitude of 51° N. .<br /> <br /> This is a blend of 8 exposures from 2.5 seconds for the sky, foreground and stars, to 1/50 second for the lunar disk, to preserve details on the Moon. Blended with luminosity masks created with TK9 Actions, but adjusted with feathering to smooth the blends. All with the Canon R5 and RF70-200mm lens at 200mm, untracked. A mild Orton glow was added with Luminar Neo. Hot pixels in the ground removed with a D&S filter on a stamped layer with a Darken blend mode.