First quarter moon shot on June 15th. It's a beautiful sight when the moon is less than full, especially along the terminator, where the craters are really evident. A common misconception is that it is the Earth's shadow that creates the phases of the moon. However, it depends entirely on our viewing angle as a function of where we are relative to the moon. The graphic below shows it pretty clearly...
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1st Quarter Moon
June 15, 2013
Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount
Nikon D3100 Camera in RAW
20 frames at 1/1600"
ISO 1600
1 Dark Frame
Images converted from RAW to TIF in XnView
Images stacked in Registax 6
Final processing in Photoshop
This is a truly beautiful picture.
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