A Gibbous Moon |
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Below is a gibbous moon. The bright rayed crater at the bottom is Tycho. North is at 1 o'clock and Mare Crisium is at 3 o'clock.
This shot was taken at Mistletoe Observatory in Monmouth Oregon August 24, 2007 using the FSQ 106 and Astro-Physics 900. It is the best in a sequence of 0.1 second images taken in hydrogen alpha light to reduce brightness. It is an unbinned ST8E shot.