By Cecille Kennedy | 2023-04-22
On 04/22/2023 06:23 pm by Peter Lowenstein| Mutare, Zimbabwe
Waxing Crescent Moon and the Pleiades.
At 6.23 pm on Saturday 22nd April the two-and-a-half day old 7% illuminated Waxing Crescent Moon was photographed in the vicinity of the Pleiades Star cluster which was about to set behind the flank of Transmitter Hill near Mutare. This was a lucky capture as thin cloud which was causing a halo around the Moon had cleared sufficiently a short distance below to reveal the Pleiades to the camera but not the naked eye! More information on the night sky in the vicinity of the Pleiades in April at https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/
Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 in manual exposure mode.
Image size reduction and adjustment of brightness and contrast to bring out detail.