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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
07/27/2020
05:32 pm

Equipment Details:

Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset mode with x80 optical +digital zoom

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop Elements 15 - image crop and size reduction

Image Details:

First Quarter Moon
A few minutes after sunset on Monday 27th the First Quarter Moon showing the pareidolic features Lunar X (one third of the way down) and inverted Lunar V (same distance further) on the terminator was photographed almost directly overhead when the lighting and contrast between Moon and sky had increased enough to make the two features clearly visible.

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