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Catherine Hyde
Shandon, CA USA
07/02/2023
10:07 pm

Equipment Details:

This was taken with a Nikon D810A astro camera and a 58mm Nikkor lens. No tracking mount, just a tripod.

Post-processing Details:

I separated stars from moon in Pixinsight and processed them separately, then recombined in Photoshop (because of the extreme brightness difference).

Image Details:

This is the Full Buck Moon surrounded by the Teapot Asterism not long after it rose last night, July 3rd. There was some photoshopping involved (separating stars into a different image and processing separately) to help the stars show up without seriously overexposing the full moon.