Moon Age 18.2


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Date & Time: Sep 17 2019, 23:53 JST(+0900), mosaic of 6 flames
Optical: BORG 60ED with Televue PowerMate2.5× (f=875mm, F14.6)
Auto-guided with EYEBELL CD-1 portable Equatorial
Camera: CELESTRON Skyris445C with IDAS IR-cut filter
Location: Hitachi city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: 30 flames/sec.×6sec., Exp....1/50sec
150 flames stacked each & Wavelet process with Registax6



This is a lunar image with the phase of 18.2 culminates a little past 1 am. After the full moon, waning gibbous moon rises getting later day by day. These phased moons can be seen in dawn, we often collectively call them "Dawn Moon".

 ¶ Geocentric distance: 400,900 km, Distance from observed location: 396,100 km




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