Last Quarter Moon

This image of the last quarter Moon was captured from the patio of my townhouse in Palmyra, NJ. It was taken at 12:50PM in the afternoon, and although the sky is shown black in this image, the original image had a light blue sky which you would expect. I simply adjusted the blackpoint of the image to make the background sky black using the levels command in Photoshop.

Image Specifications:

     •  Instrument:  Takahashi FS-102 Refractor (820mm - f/8)
     •  Camera:  Canon 20Da
     •  Filters:  None
     •  Mount:  Losmandy GM-8 Equatorial
     •  Guiding:  None
     •  Time / Date :  October 24, 2006, 12:50PM EST
     •  Location:  Palmyra, NJ
     •  Weather:  Clear
     •  Primary Exposure :  Single 1/320sec exposure, ISO 100, JPG mode
     •  Calibration Frames:  None
     •  Image Processing :  Photoshop CS2, Images Plus Deconvolution, NoiseNinja