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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
04/30/2020
11:19 pm

Equipment Details:

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in manual mode with x60 zoom magnification

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - crop register and size reduce nine images to produce mosaic

Image Details:

First Quarter Moon Setting at 11.19 pm
In the late evening the sky was completely clear allowing a picture to be taken of the Moon at the exact instant of First Quarter at 10.38 pm. Three quarters of an hour later it was captured setting behind some Musasa trees at the foot of the Christmas Pass slope of Transmitter Hill.

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