Thin Moon
3/5/2006 Update: This image made a book cover. See below. Looks pretty nice! The book Any Old Wolf by Murray Silverstein is published by www.sixteenrivers.org
This is yet another image from the NHAC's "Neal" observing site in Dolen, TX
Moonset at the Neal Site, 7:51 p.m. 9/27/03. The moon is ~45 hours old, just over 5% illuminated. Nikon D100 DSLR, Takahashi FS-102 telescope with Nikon TC-301 2x teleconverter for effective focal length of 1640 mm @f32, 1.6 sec. exposure at ISO 200 setting.
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