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Community photo entitled Crescent moon with earthshine and Venus by Tom Tan on 11/04/2024 at Melbourne, Australia

Crescent moon with earthshine and Venus

On 11/04/2024 08:57 pm by Tom Tan | Melbourne, Australia

(I shall be delighted to share with you, a view of the crescent moon, as seen over the southern skies. This is my companion photo to the previous crescent moon with Mercury posted earlier)

On Nov 4, the moon has moved up to the vicinity of Venus.
I could just fit them diagonally in the same 200mm frame on a full frame camera.

I wanted to show a crescent with earthshine too.
I have pushed the ISO to 200 and exposure to five seconds to show the earthshine.

The crescent here is facing a different direction from what you will see in the north.

Nikon D750, 80-200mm lens at 200mm
f/5.6, ISO 200, 5 seconds
lens leveled to match the sky,
no tracking

The original frame as is, no editing, exported with compression