Moon-Venus Conjunction Setting.
On Sunday 23rd April, the 13% illuminated Waxing Crescent Moon with Cloud Halo in conjunction with Venus was photographed setting behind the summit of Transmitter Hill near Mutare in the dark between 7.16 and 7.21 pm. The accompanying montage was prepared from a time-lapse sequence of 63 still images captured with a tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 camera using 1 second exposures taken at f 6.1 and ISO 1600.

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 in manual exposure mode.

Preparation of montage of 9 images from a time-lapse sequence. A considerable amount of post-processing was required, including registering the photographs to remove slight camera movement, adjustment of brightness and contrast to compensate for low light and despeckling to remove background noise.