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1st Quarter Moon over Mississippi image

1st Quarter Moon over Mississippi


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Description

Image of the moon at first quarter. Taken from Top of Mississippi Skies Observatory, 35.0° N - 88.3° W near Pickwick Lake on 22 Sep 2012. Coincidentally, both the Lunar X and the Lunar V are both visible. Image consists of a mosaic of 6 images, each 250 (of 1000) AVI sub-images stacked in Registax 6 and the output combined in PhotoShop CS3. Postprocessing consisted only of minimal HighPass filtering. Telescope is a TMB-130SS at F/7 and camera is an IS-DBK 41.