Quarter Moon on December 17, 2007

 

TFirst Quarter moon

The moon was 57% full when this image was made on Devember 17, 2007.


Equipment
TMB-130SS APO refractor at f/7 on a Losmandy G-11 equatorial mount
SBIG ST-8XM camera
SBIG CFW-10 filter wheel with Astrodon filters
Guiding: 60mm f/5 refractor and ST-402 camera
Imaging and autoguiding with MaxIm DL 4.57
Exposure Single 0.11-second unbinned frame, through a hydrgen-alpha filter, -30°C
Processing Levels and curves, highpass filter (60% fade, overlay mode) in Photoshop CS2
Date and Location 17 December 2007
Montpelier, VA    N 37° 49' 12", W 77° 42' 06"