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Community photo entitled  by Rob Pettengill on 07/04/2020 at Austin, Texas, US

On 07/04/2020 11:29 pm by Rob Pettengill| Austin, Texas, US

A beautiful full moon for Independence Day in the United states, but where did the eclipse go? Partial penumbral eclipses are very subtle. Only a small sliver of the sun is hidden by the earth, in roughly the top third of this image. This small gradual change in illumination is almost impossible to detect without careful photometric measurement.

Questar 1350/89mm telescope with a Sony a6300 camera at prime focus.

The best 9 of 75 images were stacked in Autostakkert! 3, deconvolved in Lynkeos, with final exposure and crop in Photoshop.