The waxing crescent Moon in the twilight sky behind a windmill water pump at City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014. This is a high dynamic range HDR stack of 7 exposures at 2/3rds stop intervals with the Canon 6D and 24mm lens.
The 24-hour-old waxing crescent Moon north of Venus (at left), now emerging into the evening sky as a prominent “evening star.” Taken at 6 pm MST, Monday, December 22, 2014, the day after winter solstice, from just east of SIlver City, New Mexico, the lights below. Earthshine is visible on the dark side of the Moon. .Taken with the 135mm lens and Canon 60Da.
The 4.5-day-old waxing crescent Moon in the deep blue twilight sky, with stars of Capricornus around the Moon including Beta Capricorni at left that the Moon occulted later that evening. This was November 26, 2014, from New Mexico. This is an HDR stack of 12 exposures at 1-stop increments from 4 secodns to 1/500th second at ISO 400 with the Canon 6D and thru the TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/6 with the Hotech field flattener. Composited and tone-mapped in Photoshop HDR Pro and ACR. Mount running at the Lunar drive rate.
