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Started by alphastar01, 09/06/2010 06:52PM
Posted 09/06/2010 06:52PM | Edited 09/11/2010 12:07AM Opening Post
For the last few days transparency has been very good here. On Saturday I was doing yard work and look up and saw a 19% waning cresent. Well today I was doing some more yard work I thought about when I saw the moon a few days earlier. Knowing about where the moon would be a took out my binoculars and scanned the sky with the corner of house blocking glare from the Sun. Within seconds I spotted the 4% waning cresent. This is a first for me, so out comes the TSA-102 and digital camera for some afocal shots.

Here are 2 images I took.

#1 @ 447 UTC on 21010906 (or Age 27d 09h 38m)


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Posted 09/06/2010 06:53PM #1
#2 Cropped @ 456 UTC on 21010906 (or Age 27d 09h 47m)


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Posted 09/17/2010 03:54AM #2
Nice! Reminds me of a shot I got back in Feb of a 2(ish) day old waning cresent: Nikon D3000: 200 mm.

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