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Moon and Aldebaran (July 29, 2016).jpg

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The waning crescent Moon near Aldebaran in a very close conjunction on the morning of July 29, 2016. We were perfectly positioned in Alberta to catch the Moon at its closest to the star and at the ideal time before the sky got too bright but with the Moon as high as possible in the sky.

This is a stack of 7 exposures, from 2 seconds for the Earthshine, twilight sky colour and stars, to 1/125th second for the bright crescent. All were stacked, aligned and blended with luminosity masks, as HDR stacking left odd fringing artifacts on the slowly moving Moon, despite applying deghosting.

All with the 130mm Astro-Physics refractor at f/6 and Canon 60Da camera at ISO 400.
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The waning crescent Moon near Aldebaran in a very close conjunction on the morning of July 29, 2016. We were perfectly positioned in Alberta to catch the Moon at its closest to the star and at the ideal time before the sky got too bright but with the Moon as high as possible in the sky.<br /> <br /> This is a stack of 7 exposures, from 2 seconds for the Earthshine, twilight sky colour and stars, to 1/125th second for the bright crescent. All were stacked, aligned and blended with luminosity masks, as HDR stacking left odd fringing artifacts on the slowly moving Moon, despite applying deghosting. <br /> <br /> All with the 130mm Astro-Physics refractor at f/6 and Canon 60Da camera at ISO 400.