Crescent Moon displaying earthshine & Jupiter at observatory

Posted by dass717
on Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The thin crescent moon displays earthshine above an observer at the eyepiece in the roll off King building at Astronomy Society of Harrisburg's Naylor Observatory. The planet Jupiter is also visible to the lower left of the moon.  A Canon EOS T1i DSLR was used. Eight second exposure @ ISO 100.

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