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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
01/06/2020
01:07 am

Equipment Details:

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset mode with x40 zoom magnification

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - image crop and size reduction

Image Details:

Waxing Moon with Golden Handle
At just after 1 am on Monday the Waxing Moon displaying a Golden Handle was photographed above the northern shoulder of Christmas Pass. The golden handle is a play of light on the high peaks of the Lunar Montes Jura along the terminator line, visible four to five days before full Moon. Unlike on a previous occasion last May when the terminator was almost horizontal ( https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-waxing-moon-with-golden-handle ), this morning’s terminator was much more steeply tilted with respect to the local horizon.

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