I was out the other night snagging a few more images of Comet Holmes when I decided to spin around to the west and capture this image of the waning crescent moon. It was actually rotated about 90° counter clockwise from how its displayed here. It kind of looked like a smile. For site formatting reasons, I decided to swing it around in a taller orientation.

Anyway, there was a bunch of detail along the lunar terminator, the line where light meets dark on the moon’s surface. I need to learn the the names of these better. At best, I can name only a small handful. The Apennine Mountains are one of my favorites as they can be seen with the naked eye and also hold a significant number of little nooks and crannys. Ideal for nights of exceptionally good seeing. Anyway, skies were relatively steady, perhaps 7 out of 10 (though the moon was well to the west)

Astro Photo Details:

* Designation: The Moon
* Magnitude: roughly mag -12
* Size: roughly 1/2*

Astro Photo Processing Details

* Canon Digital Rebel XTi
* 1 x 1/15s exposure at ISO100
* Gimp Levels and an Unsharp Mask