Crescent Moon with Earthshine Amid Stars

The 2-day-old crescent Moon with Earthshine, set in the stars and deep blue of twilight, on November 24, 2014. Taken from near Silver City, New Mexico with the TMB 92mm refractor at f/5.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 100. The stars are trailed slightly because the telescope was following the Moon at the lunar tracking rate.

This is a stack of 4 exposures: 20 seconds, 2.5 seconds, 0.3 seconds and 1/13 second, blended in a high-dynamic range stack with Photoshop HDR Pro.

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