By Ross Stone | 2026-08-29
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a full moon with a crescent Venus
On 08/30/2026 07:30 pm by Thomas Tan | Melbourne, Australia
I hope to show a picture of Venus as a crescent next to a crescent moon by mid September. This is a draft using a full moon shot earlier.
Venus and Mercury have crescents because they are inside the earth's orbit
and we can see their side, half lit by the sun and half in the shadow.
The full moon was shot at ISO 100 and 1/80 second.
Venus was shot at ISO 100 and 1/1600 second.
William Optics 360mm telescope on a Nikon 1.5X APS-C camera
tripod, remote shutter release
exposure bracketing
Two photos combined with layering.
The Venus photo has been scaled up and the composite image cropped.
No other editing.