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Nathan Eaton Jr
Heath, Texas, USA
03/25/2023
10:33 pm

Equipment Details:

Sky Watcher Evostar 72 ED with
focal reduce/flattener (effective 357mm @f/5)
Deep Sky Dad AF3
Nikon D750
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2 tracker
Radian carbon fiber tripod

Post-processing Details:

Raw, SOC, 2 sec at ISO 400

Image Details:

The Moon and Pleiades

This is a raw, SOC shot taken last night from the east shore of Lake Ray Hubbard near, Dallas, Texas.

I've got lots of shots at different exposures including some with properly exposed sunlit lunar crescent and plenty of calibration shots so I will be working to come up with a blended shot without the crescent appearing so over-exposed.

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