Last Call of 2023: 89.5% Waning Gibbous Moon

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I was not planning on another Moon photo session this year, but being the weekend with an ultra clear sky, I did not want to pass this opportunity up.

One lesson I took from my Christmas editing fun last week is that a brighter exposure is better for lunar photography. Today’s image is a product of deliberately going faster on the shutter versus my more traditional speeds, which would be in the 1/2000-1/3000 second range for this current Moon phase.

If I do not write again Anno Domini Two Thousand and Twenty-Three, I hope you, dear reader, have a good weekend and turn toward the next calendar, and please be ready for more blog articles in 2024!

Equipment Used:

• 127mm Mak-Cass telescope
• 23mm eyepiece
• No eyepiece filter
• iPhone 14 Pro
• Smartphone telescope eyepiece adapter
• NightCap app on iPhone
• f/1.8
• 1/1000 sec exposure
• ISO 57
• Focal length: 7mm
• Touchups in PaintShop Pro and AfterShot Pro

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