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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
07/02/2022
05:44 pm

Equipment Details:

Hand-held Panasonic Lumix DMC_ZS40 compact camera in sunset mode.

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Image size reduction only.

Image Details:

Waxing Crescent Moon in Volcanic Sunset Twilight Arch.
On Saturday 2nd, after a week of almost continuous overcast, the three day old 10% illuminated Waxing Crescent Moon was photographed amongst remnants of cloud in clearing sky illuminated by another strongly coloured volcanic sunset twilight arch produced by lingering stratospheric aerosols from the massive Hunga-Tonga eruption more than 5 months ago.