The nearly Full Moon sets

Posted by Perseus2011
on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Beautiful Moonset, captured on November 9th, 2011 at 05:32 a.m. MST, while on an early morning outing to see Saturn. It was below 39 degrees Fahrenheit at the time, and I spent most of the morning with my hands inside my pockets! An interesting feature in the photo, is the Moon's egg-like shape, due to atmospheric distortion, with the Moon being only 2 degrees above the horizon.

Meade Saturn 4.5 inch, F/8 newtonian reflector, with a Celestron 32mm plossl. Taken with a Olympus C-750 UZ digital camera held up to the eyepiece.

1/125 second, at f/2.8, ISO 200.

Slightly cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS, for enlargement of the Moon.

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