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Thin crescent Moon
Thin crescent Moon
Spicewood Golf Course, Austin, Texas, 2015-09-14 8:25 PM CDT. Last night’s low humidity was a great chance to capture a sharp image of a day and a half old crescent Moon - only 2.7% illuminated. I took frames of the Moon sinking behind the tree and then after it was out of sight I got better focused and exposed shots of the tree. I liked this image with my best Moon frame, but the overnight 8 parameter affine stacking gives the sharpest crescent Moon image that I’ve been able to take. Questar 3.5 with Sony NEX-5N at prime focus. Moon exposure 0.5 sec and trees 1.3 sec at ISO 800. 33 Moon frames stacked with 8 parameter affine transforms in Nebulosity, deconvolved in Lynkeos, stacked with in focus tree image and final tweaks in Photoshop.
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Atacama Crescent Moon |
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Thin crescent Moon |
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Earthshine on a waxing crescent Moon |
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Fly me to the Moon |
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First Quarter Moon |
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Nearly Blue Moon Revisited |
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Christmas eve Moon |
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Waning gibbous Moon |
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Summer Solstice Full Moon from Austin |
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Waxing gibbous Moon |
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Waxing November gibbous Moon |
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Texas Longhorn Moon |
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An Alpine sunset on the Moon |
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Clavius Tycho Moretus region of the Moon |
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Tranquility Base |
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Raspberry Pi Moon |
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Copernicus in the early morning |
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Clavius and the Southern Highlands of the Moon |
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Earthshine Crescent Moon |
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January Earthshine Crescent Moon |
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Spring Waning Crescent Moon with Earthshine |
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April Fools' eve Moon with earthshine |
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December Solstice Crescent Moon with Earthshine |
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01 Thin Crescent Moon 150914 |
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02 Crescent Moon |
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03 Earthshine on the Waxing Crescent Moon |
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04 Crescent Moon with earthshine |
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05 Terlingua Crescent Moon |
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06 Birthday Crescent Moon |
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12 Waxing Gibbous Moon 160321 stills with silent shutter |
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13 Christmas Eve nearly full Moon |
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14 Merry Christmas (La Befana) Full Moon |
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15 Moon Super 140811 |
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16 Waning Gibbous Moon the Terminator is Back! |
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17 Waning Gibbous Moon 140813 |
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18 Waning Gibbous Moon 140814 |
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21 Moon Last Quarter 140817 |
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23 Waning Crescent Moon with Earthshine |
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24 Moon Waning Crescent |
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25 Moon Waning Crescent with Earthshine |
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26 Moon Waning Crescent |
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27 Moon Thin Waning Crescent 140823 |
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28 Old Crescent Moon in the Sun's last grasp 140725 |
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29 Moon during partial eclipse of the Sun 141023 |
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Mercury & the Moon with Earthshine |
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Lunar occultation of Venus |
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Luna & Gaia's Shadow |
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Moon, Jupiter, & Callisto |
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Moon & red Mars Conjunction |
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Seven Worlds at Dawn |
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Super Blue Blood Moon Time-lapse Lometa Texas |
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Thin crescent Moon |
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Earthshine on a waxing crescent Moon |
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Fly me to the Moon |
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Nearly Blue Moon Revisited |
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Christmas eve Moon |
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Waning gibbous Moon |
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Summer Solstice Full Moon from Austin |
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Waxing gibbous Moon |
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Waxing November gibbous Moon |
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Texas Longhorn Moon |
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An Alpine sunset on the Moon |
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Clavius Tycho Moretus region of the Moon |
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Tranquility Base |
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Raspberry Pi Moon |
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Copernicus in the early morning |
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Clavius and the Southern Highlands of the Moon |
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My Personal Universe |
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Moon setting Pulpit Rock Garden of the Gods |
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| Date Taken: | 2015-09-14 |
| Keywords: | Sunset Moon |
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Gorgeous!
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Where's the boy with fishing rod?
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04 Crescent Moon with earthshine
12 Waxing Gibbous Moon 160321 stills with silent shutter
13 Christmas Eve nearly full Moon
14 Merry Christmas (La Befana) Full Moon
16 Waning Gibbous Moon the Terminator is Back!
22 Moon Waning Crescent 140818
23 Waning Crescent Moon with Earthshine
25 Moon Waning Crescent with Earthshine
27 Moon Thin Waning Crescent 140823
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Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter
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Earthshine on a waxing crescent Moon
Summer Solstice Full Moon from Austin
Clavius Tycho Moretus region of the Moon
Copernicus in the early morning
Clavius and the Southern Highlands of the Moon
January Earthshine Crescent Moon
Spring Waning Crescent Moon with Earthshine
Mars just before 2020 opposition
Mars before opposition May 2016 - Revisited
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Jupiter imaged with a Raspberry Pi Camera
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Elephant Trunk Nebula with the Garnet Star
Iris Nebula, beauty in the dark
Sword of Orion with the Great Nebual and Running Man
Heart of the Milky Way from ALMA OSF
Geminid Meteor and holiday lit trees
Moon setting Pulpit Rock Garden of the Gods
Made with care using XML on a Mac in Austin, Texas on
2026-09-11
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Ph.D. 