EarthSky Community Photos

Submit your photo here. Comment or upvote on photo pages. Search via photographers' names. More improvements coming! To help, please donate.

Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
07/25/2019
12:16 am

Equipment Details:

Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset mode with x60 zoom magnification

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - crop and register 9 still images to produce mosaic

Image Details:

A Golden Treat - Last Quarter Moon Appears

A few minutes after mid-night on 25th July, the half illuminated Last Quarter Moon with horizontal terminator was captured appearing and then rising above a hill in Cecil Kop Nature Reserve as shown in the accompanying nine frame mosaic. The golden colour was due to absorption of light by atmospheric haze close to the horizon.