Ultra Thin Daytime Moon
thin moon in the daytime sky
Uploaded 10/3/24

 
Only
            12 degrees of Eastern enlongation, this waxing super thin moon
            is 1.1% and 25 hours old. This was a test shot with a very smokey
            sky to see if it was feasible to record comet TA near perihelion.
            The moon recorded ok, but no comet today.

            
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Instrument:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph Newtonian with Baader MPCC
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  Lunar/Planetary ASI183MM
Exposure:  5ms
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 2 arcsec , Transparency 3/10
Outside Temperature:  85 F

Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL6:  Calibration, Color Conversion, aligning, stacking
PixInsight:  Saturation Curves
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup

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